About Deborah
Deborah Ritchie is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people manage stress and anxiety. She holds BACP accreditation, and brings four years of professional experience to sessions. Deborah writes simply and listens closely to what matters to each person she meets.
She commonly helps with anxiety, low mood and grief, as well as relationship concerns and issues with self-esteem and motivation.
Background and approach
Deborah also supports people dealing with trauma, addiction and sleep difficulties. Neurodiverse clients are welcome and she has experience working with autism and related challenges. Her work responds to short-term practical goals and longer-term personal change.
Sessions draw on cognitive behavioural tools to notice unhelpful thoughts, mindfulness to steady attention, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and action. Attachment-focused ideas are used when relationship patterns are a source of distress. Deborah has worked in a college setting with people aged 16 and over, covering topics such as family relationships, gender identity, self-harm and trauma.
That experience shaped her direct yet gentle style and her ability to discuss sensitive issues without rushing. Taking part in counselling is presented as a collaborative process. Deborah aims to help people identify small steps that make daily life feel more manageable, and she supports them as those steps are put into practice.
Practical therapy approaches delivered online
Deborah commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioural techniques in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive behavioural techniques focus on spotting patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep problems going and trying small experiments to change them.She also draws on client-centred and attachment-aware ideas when relationships or early patterns are part of the difficulty. That means therapy is collaborative: the therapist and client work together to choose an approach that fits the person’s goals, pace and preferences rather than following a single path.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit counselling around work, family life and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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