About Dennis
Dennis Richards is a psychotherapeutic counsellor with ten years of practice in the United Kingdom. He focuses on helping people who struggle with stress, anxiety and addictions. He also supports people managing trauma, low self-esteem and low motivation.
Dennis believes people are the experts on their own stories. He looks for strengths clients already have and builds on them. The first step can feel hard, and he aims to make starting therapy feel manageable and respectful.
Background and approach
In sessions he uses straightforward, practical methods. He draws on client-centred listening to understand each person’s priorities. He also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns.
Dennis works with trauma-focused methods and EMDR to address distressing memories when that is appropriate. He may also use solution-focused and hypnotherapy techniques to help people set goals and try different ways of coping. Across his work he keeps aims clear and practical.
Common areas he helps with include panic attacks, phobias, depression, eating concerns, anger, and chronic pain or illness. He also addresses less often discussed topics such as alternative sex culture, process addictions, and issues around abandonment and shame. Dennis offers sessions in English and welcomes people from outside the UK.
His approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs, helping them move toward clearer choices and small, steady changes.
Approaches that suit online therapy
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s goals and priorities, helping the therapist and client work together to find what feels right. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact and uses practical exercises to reduce anxiety, panic and low mood.EMDR is used to process distressing memories by pairing focused attention with guided eye movements or other bilateral stimulation; it can help with symptoms of post-traumatic stress when trauma-focused work is appropriate. Each method has a different feel in sessions, and Dennis will discuss which approach or mix of approaches matches the person’s needs and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and the use of visual materials, while phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, written reflection or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel, and to continue work even when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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