Andrea Ferri

Andrea Ferri is an integrative counsellor and a member of the BACP. He works within The Awareness Centre’s low-cost counselling service and is currently completing a Diploma in Integrative Counselling.

Andrea offers a warm, personable and relational style of counselling, grounded primarily in person-centred and humanistic approaches. He aims to create a safe, respectful and trusting space where clients feel genuinely heard, accepted and met as they are, without judgement. While holding this foundation, Andrea works integratively and may draw on a range of therapeutic perspectives and tools, always guided by the needs of the individual. He places particular emphasis on the here and now, supporting clients to gently develop awareness of their thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations as they arise within the therapeutic relationship. Andrea believes that meaningful change can emerge through presence and compassionate self-awareness, helping clients move away from cycles of worry, doubt and self-criticism, and towards a more grounded and authentic connection with themselves.

Before training as a counsellor, Andrea spent many years working in business and technology, while also maintaining a long-standing interest in wellbeing that began when he trained as a holistic therapist earlier in his life. Balancing a demanding professional career alongside raising a family has given him a deep appreciation of the challenges of modern life, including the pressures of work, responsibility, identity and constant change. He understands firsthand the impact that stress and a fast-moving world can have on emotional wellbeing and relationships, as well as the importance of finding moments of inner stillness and self-connection. Andrea has experience working with anxiety, low mood, self-esteem, work-related stress, life transitions and relationship difficulties, and welcomes clients from diverse backgrounds.