About Deirdre
Deirdre Levins is a counsellor who helps people manage stress and anxiety and related concerns. She supports individuals dealing with depression, grief, anger, addictions and issues around self-esteem. Her work also addresses relationship and intimacy-related worries, career strain, and life changes that leave people feeling stuck.
Deirdre trained in integrative therapy and psychology and holds NCPS as a listed credential. She uses a blend of approaches to suit each client rather than one fixed method.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings as well as clearer thinking in the moment. Her style is straightforward and collaborative. Deirdre aims to create a calm space where people can talk about hard experiences and try small, manageable changes.
She encourages clients to notice what matters to them and to build routines that support better coping. Deirdre often draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to challenge unhelpful thoughts and on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people move toward chosen values. Mindfulness practices and emotion-regulation skills from dialectical behaviour approaches feature when they fit the person’s needs.
She also brings elements of Jungian thinking when exploring deeper patterns and personal meaning. Over eight years she has worked with diverse issues including attachment and abandonment concerns, eating and body image struggles, codependency, and the effects of trauma and abuse.
How different approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values. It can reduce avoidance and be useful for anxiety, stress and low mood. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. It is practical and often used for anxiety, depression and eating-related concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and preferences and suggest methods that feel like a good fit. Choices can be adjusted as therapy progresses so the plan stays relevant to the person’s needs.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexible access. Video is useful for full conversations and when non-verbal cues matter. Phone sessions can suit people with lower bandwidth or who prefer not to be on camera. Chat and messaging allow for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between calls. These options help people fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- 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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