About Deborah
Deborah Gornall is a warm and approachable counsellor who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She communicates in plain terms and aims to make first steps easier for anyone feeling overwhelmed. Deborah brings a calm, non-judgemental manner to sessions so people can speak openly about what is worrying them.
She uses a blend of client-centred work and cognitive behavioural techniques to match each person’s needs. That means she listens first, then suggests practical ways to test thoughts and try different behaviours.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small, doable changes rather than large, abstract plans. Deborah has six years of experience and holds membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She follows the BACP codes of ethics in her practice and aims to act professionally at every step.
This background shapes a straightforward, respectful approach to care. People come to her with many issues, including relationship worries, grief, low self-esteem, depression, addictions, eating concerns and trauma. She also works with anxiety-related problems such as phobias, obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours.
Deborah tailors sessions around whoever sits in front of her and their immediate goals. Her style is practical and caring. She aims to help clients understand patterns, try new coping strategies, and build skills for managing life changes.
The focus is on collaboration and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
How Deborah’s approaches work online
Deborah uses client-centred ways of working that focus on the person in front of her. This approach means she listens without judgement and helps people to make sense of their feelings and choices, which suits talk-based sessions for issues like grief and low self-esteem.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact. CBT offers practical exercises and experiments people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety, manage obsessive worries or change avoidance habits.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Deborah will discuss goals and preferences and adapt methods so they suit each person’s needs. That collaborative process helps decide whether more listening-led support or structured CBT tasks are most useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different days and routines. Video is useful for full conversation and visual connection, phone sessions can fit a break at work, live chat offers a shorter check-in and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options let people access therapy when travel, timing or mobility make in-person visits difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Hoarding
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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