About Deborah
Deborah Pell is a counsellor and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has six years of practice helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety and depression. She also supports those dealing with relationship difficulties, eating concerns, low self-esteem and major life changes.
Her sessions happen by video, phone, live chat or text messaging so people can choose what suits them. She works with adults and adolescents and aims to make talking about hard things easier and more manageable.
Background and approach
In sessions Deborah keeps things straightforward and calm. She listens without judgement and helps people name what is most troubling them. From there she and the client agree practical steps to tackle problems and build coping skills that fit day-to-day life.
She has particular experience with trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues and anger, and also offers coaching-style support for motivation and goal-setting. Additional focuses include body image, attachment difficulties, caregiver stress, chronic illness and other relationship or life transition concerns. Deborah describes her style as empathetic and respectful.
She aims to create a space where people feel heard and can practise new ways of responding to old patterns. The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Sessions are offered in English and are available to international clients.
Fees vary by location and sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to therapist availability.
Practical approaches and online therapy options
Deborah draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that help people manage anxiety and rebuild everyday functioning. One common method focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing them against real-life evidence to reduce worry and rumination; this helps with persistent anxiety and low mood. Another approach centres on developing practical coping skills - such as breathing work, paced activity planning and short behavioural experiments - which are useful for stress, trauma recovery and managing anger.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Deborah will discuss different ways of working and decide together with each person which methods fit their needs, goals and comfort level. The plan is adapted over time so sessions remain relevant and useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging, giving flexible options for how to connect. Video is useful for fuller conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit brief check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping continuity of support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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