28th January 2012 

Psychotherapy and Counselling near central Oxford


Are you feeling sad, weary, anxious or just stuck?
Have negative thoughts taken over and your happier self disappeared?
Occasionally, life hands us problems that are too big to handle alone.

Sometimes we can feel reluctant to tell friends and family how bad we really feel, or might think we have burdened loved ones enough with our problems. That can leave us feeling isolated or hopeless.

Psychotherapy offers a safe place to talk with a compassionate, professionally-trained and experienced person who is dedicated to helping you regain your sense of well being. It takes courage to begin therapy. When we look at how we live our lives a more peaceful and enriching way forward often emerges.


counselling central oxford #01My name is Anneli Nilsson, welcome to my website. I am a professional psychotherapist with a private practice on Woodstock Road (map), a few minutes walk from St.Giles in central Oxford. In the 1990s I qualified as a psychologist and later trained as a counsellor and psychotherapist. I am committed to providing effective, confidential psychotherapy, short or longer term, and tailor this service to fit the individual needs of my clients. I have helped people who have difficulties with,

  • Stress, anxiety and mental health
  • Depression, low self-esteem and confidence
  • Relationships issues, bullying, anger, sex, intimacy and respect
  • Physical problems such as fertility, disability, cancer and HIV
  • Bereavement, loss, grieving and adjustment
  • Neglect, abuse and trauma

    If you are looking for counselling near central Oxford with a qualified and reliable professional do contact me by email or call for a brief confidential discussion. No charge or obligation is entailed, it is simply a means of checking if my practice feels right for you. I welcome enquires.

    If you would like to know more about my practice, counselling or psychotherapy have a look at the Questions? page or if you would like to check my experience and credentials do take a look at the About Anneli page or look me up on Counselling Directory. On the latter page you will see that alongside my private psychotherapy practice, until recently I work as psychotherapist in an Oxford NHS hospital. Before that I worked at the eating disorders clinic in Royal Edinburgh Hospital and later as a counsellor at Mind, a national mental health charity.

    I am a member of the UKCP and work in accordance with its professional and ethical principles.

    Please note: in July 2012 I will start a lengthy sabbatical. I am still seeing new clients for work that will end by then, or continue remotely.