About Denis
Denis Bruce is a psychotherapist who helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, loss, or relationship strain. He brings 25 years of experience and a calm, practical presence to conversations. People come to him when life feels stuck or during major changes, and he offers steady support to find clearer ways forward.
He works in a down-to-earth and collaborative way. Sessions begin by clarifying what matters most to the client now.
Background and approach
From there he helps spot unhelpful patterns and build practical steps to respond to them. Denis draws on several approaches to suit different needs. He uses cognitive behavioural ideas to tackle thinking and behaviour that fuel anxiety.
He also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect how people connect now. For trauma he may use eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing to reduce the hold of distressing memories. Sessions can be structured with clear goals or more reflective, depending on what the client prefers.
Denis aims to create a supportive space where people feel heard and can try out new ways of coping. He offers video, phone, live chat, and messaging formats to fit different routines. He holds a BACP registration, practises in the United Kingdom, and works in English.
To start, a short matching questionnaire is completed and sessions are scheduled according to availability. Subscription sessions can be cancelled at any time.
How Denis's approaches work online
Denis often uses cognitive behavioural therapy to help people notice and change thinking and behaviour that maintain anxiety or low mood. CBT focuses on small, practical experiments and clear coping steps that are easy to practise between sessions.He also works from an attachment-based perspective to understand how early relationship patterns shape present connections and emotional reactions. This approach helps people recognise familiar relationship dynamics and try different ways of relating that feel safer and more fulfilling.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Denis will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together they will decide which methods to try. He adapts the pace and focus as progress unfolds so the plan fits the client's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls suit in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone meetings use less bandwidth and can fit a work break, while chat or messaging can be useful for short check-ins, journalling between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy going around work, family life, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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