Bridget Hannaford

Bridget Hannaford is a PACFA counsellor in Australia with five years of practice. She helps people managing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief and parenting challenges. She also works with concerns such as attachment and abandonment, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and communication problems.

Bridget uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. She pays attention to how emotions shape behaviour and relationships. She also uses somatic approaches to notice how the body responds to stress and to work with those responses in sessions.

Sessions often include practical tools from mindful CBT and elements from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to manage overwhelming feelings. Bridget talks through grief and loss in ways that allow space for emotion and for making sense of what has changed. She has experience with trauma, domestic violence and betrayal trauma and addresses these concerns with care and attention to safety.

Her work also reflects an understanding of migration and cross-cultural issues, divorce and separation, estrangement and blended family dynamics. Bridget helps people name difficult patterns and try different ways of communicating and relating. She focuses on clear, workable strategies alongside emotional processing.

People considering Bridget can expect a direct, steady approach that links emotional experience, thoughts and actions. She will discuss which methods to use and why, and work with each person to find helpful next steps.

How Bridget uses EFT, ACT and attachment approaches online