About Debra
Debra "Debs" Barritt is a counsellor with 15 years of experience who focuses on helping people through stress, anxiety and life changes. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and brings a warm, down-to-earth presence to sessions. Debs began her journey after a difficult childhood and training in person-centred counselling.
She has worked in bereavement support at a hospice and ran a independent practice, experience that shaped her calm, steady style.
Background and approach
Her background gives her particular insight into grief, loss and major life transitions. In sessions she aims to listen carefully and help people find practical ways to manage day-to-day pressures. She uses familiar approaches such as client-centred work and cognitive behavioural ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of coping.
Internal Family Systems ideas also inform her way of looking at internal parts and how they influence feelings. Debs supports people with a wide range of concerns including relationships, self-esteem, depression, trauma and addictions. She also helps with issues such as parenting strain, chronic illness, caregiving stress and compassion fatigue.
Her style is compassionate and straightforward, offering steady support while helping people make small, manageable changes. She works with people in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step are used to connect with her through the site's booking process.
How Debs uses therapy approaches online
Debs draws on client-centred ideas to put the person and their experience at the heart of sessions. This approach focuses on listening, acceptance and helping people find their own answers, which can be especially useful for stress, relationship worries and self-esteem concerns.She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques to spot patterns of thinking that make anxiety and low mood worse. CBT-style work involves trying small changes in thinking and behaviour and practising them between sessions to reduce distress and build coping skills.
Internal Family Systems informs how she understands conflicting feelings or 'parts' inside a person. This helps when someone feels pulled in different directions by anger, fear, or a critical inner voice, and can support work on trauma, attachment and intimacy issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Debs will discuss options with each person and together decide which ideas and methods fit best with their goals and preferences. This is a collaborative conversation and may change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give more flexibility. Video works well when visual connection is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging suit people who prefer written reflection or need a more flexible way to fit therapy around work and family life.
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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
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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