Natalie Bunker, NCPS

Natalie Bunker is an NCPS counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with seven years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, anger and relationship concerns. Natalie uses straightforward conversation and practical strategies to help people manage strong feelings and day-to-day problems.

She combines a client-centred approach with cognitive behavioural techniques. That means sessions start with the person’s own priorities and experiences. Then Natalie introduces practical tools to test patterns of thinking and behaviour when they get in the way.

Sessions focus on clear, manageable steps. People learn ways to recognise triggers, slow down heated reactions, and try different responses. Natalie also helps with sleep problems, parenting strain, workplace stress and issues around intimacy and self-esteem.

Her work includes supporting people affected by adoption and foster care, blended family issues, domestic violence, eating concerns, infidelity, OCD-related behaviours, panic attacks, non-monogamous relationship questions, smoking or vaping cessation, women’s issues and young adult concerns. She draws on simple CBT exercises alongside a listening style that keeps the person’s goals central.

She accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English. The first meeting typically establishes priorities and practical steps for what to work on next. To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule an initial session.

How Natalie applies client-centred and CBT approaches online