About Dea
Dea Richardson is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with eight years of professional experience. She holds NCPS as a credential. Dea focuses on helping people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, mood difficulties and trauma-related concerns.
She works with individuals facing relationship strain, addictions, grief and major life changes. Her sessions are grounded in practical conversation and clear goals. She treats each person as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
People can expect straightforward talk, gentle challenge and a focus on skills that make daily life easier. Dea uses a mix of approaches to suit different needs. She draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to tackle unhelpful thinking and behaviour.
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people live according to their values even when feelings are hard. Her background includes work with trauma, recovery from narcissistic abuse, and support for those coping with addiction. She also helps with issues around self-esteem, body image and attachment concerns.
Dea pays attention to how past experiences shape present patterns and offers tools to begin changing them. Sessions are offered in English and Dea works with international clients. People can expect a collaborative process that moves at a steady, practical pace.
The aim is to reduce daily distress and increase the things that matter most to each person.
How online approaches like ACT and CBT work in sessions
Dea commonly uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in online work. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and helps people try different behaviours to reduce anxiety and low mood. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values and long-term goals.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to the person's needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative decision and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing between scheduled sessions or need a quicker way to touch base. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel and family life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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