About Deborah
Deborah Espie is a counsellor with eight years' experience supporting people facing stress and anxiety. She offers calm, straightforward support for a wide range of concerns including trauma, grief, low mood, relationship difficulties and life changes. Deborah works in a warm, down-to-earth way so people can talk at their own pace and feel listened to.
She uses a client-centred approach, which means the work is shaped around each person’s needs and priorities.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and solution-focused ideas are often part of sessions to help manage overwhelming thoughts and to build practical steps forward. Trauma-focused techniques are used when past events are affecting day-to-day life. Deborah has worked in senior clinical and academic roles, which informs her practical understanding of how people cope and adapt.
She also has experience supporting neurodivergent people and those facing complex, overlapping problems such as chronic illness or caregiving stress. Her BACP registration is part of the professional details she shares. Sessions can include imagery, metaphor or simple reflective exercises when that feels useful.
Deborah encourages small, sustainable changes so people can build resilience and self-compassion over time. She offers video, phone, chat and messaging formats so conversations can fit into a busy life. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled through the platform.
Costs are handled via a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
Approaches that suit online therapy
Deborah often draws on client-centred work, which focuses on listening closely and following what matters most to the person. This approach helps people find their own solutions and feel understood during conversations. Mindfulness therapy is another common element; it offers simple practices to reduce rumination and to bring attention back to the present moment, which can ease anxiety and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels manageable, then suggest ways of working that fit those needs. Sessions can shift over time as priorities change, and this is decided collaboratively rather than imposed.
Online therapy can be flexible and practical. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps, while phone sessions suit lower bandwidth or people who prefer not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, reflective notes, or when a shorter, more frequent contact fits someone’s routine. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and daily life, while still applying mindfulness, solution-focused or trauma-informed ideas in the session.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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