About Debra
Debra Hayman is a counsellor with eight years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, addiction and relationship worries. Debra aims to help people understand their feelings and make practical changes that fit their lives.
Debra uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She draws on client-centred work to follow what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioural ideas to spot patterns of thinking that feed anxiety and low mood. Her background includes seven years working with drug and alcohol misuse alongside other mental health needs. That work also covered domestic abuse, bullying, grief and eating problems.
This experience informs how she supports people with trauma, self-esteem and coping with life changes. Sessions focus on clear, manageable steps. Debra listens, reflects what she hears and offers tools you can try between meetings.
She helps people set small goals and notice what changes over time. People who contact Debra often want to work on relationships, intimacy issues, parenting strain or career stress. She also supports those facing compassion fatigue, caregiver stress and age-related concerns.
Conversations are practical and aimed at improving day-to-day functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Debra combines client-centred work and cognitive behavioural therapy to help people cope with anxiety, addiction and relationship strain. Client-centred therapy means the therapist follows the client’s priorities, listens closely and reflects what is said so people feel understood. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. Debra will discuss your goals and preferences and agree on a way forward together. That collaborative process makes it easier to try different tools and keep what helps most for you.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video calls allow a fuller conversation when both people have good bandwidth. Phone sessions are useful when a shorter check-in is needed or when being on camera feels difficult. Live chat and messaging suit quick updates, reflective writing or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options make it possible to maintain continuity, fit therapy around work or caring commitments, and choose the format that best supports each step of progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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