About Me

My name is Ben Beacroft. I am a fully qualified therapist and counsellor with Registered MBACP status — the level of registration the BACP recommends when seeking a therapist.

My training was integrative, drawing on four core approaches: Person-Centred, CBT, Existential, and Psychodynamic. While I use elements of each model, my focus is always on understanding your perspective and helping you find practical, grounded ways to navigate what’s troubling you.

A central part of my work is exploring relationships. I understand many emotional difficulties — anxiety, sadness, overwhelm, conflict, or a sense of “stuckness” — as being connected to our relational world. This includes early experiences with caregivers, the loss of important relationships, tensions in current ones, or the relationship we have with ourselves. Much of our work will involve exploring these patterns with curiosity, clarity, and compassion.

My Interest in Couples Work

Alongside my work with individuals, I have a strong interest in supporting couples. Relationship distress, communication breakdown, repeated arguments, or emotional distance can affect every part of life. I help couples understand the deeper dynamics beneath their struggles, communicate with more clarity and respect, rebuild trust, and strengthen the parts of their relationship that are already working well.

Whether I’m working with individuals or partners together, I approach relationships as living systems — influenced by history, emotion, behaviour, and everyday pressures. My aim is to help you both make sense of what’s happening between you, not just within you.

My Professional Background

Before becoming a full-time therapist, I worked as a mental health nurse (RNMH) from 1999 to 2019. Over two decades, I gained extensive experience across a range of mental health and substance-misuse settings, including many years as deputy manager of an NHS detox unit. This gave me a deep understanding of addictive behaviours and a strong grounding in conditions such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and personality disorders.

Throughout my career, I have supported people facing a wide variety of psychological challenges: self-harm, suicidal feelings, substance misuse, long-term depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, body-image difficulties, and complex emotional distress. I have also worked with people from many cultural backgrounds and diverse life circumstances.

My Commitment to You

Whatever your circumstances, and whatever you bring to therapy, you can be assured that I will meet you with sensitivity, confidentiality, and without judgement. My priority is to provide a safe, steady, and compassionate space where real understanding — and real change — can take place.

I now work exclusively in private practice with both individuals and couples across the South East.