About Geraldine
Geraldine Davenport is a counsellor with more than 20 years' experience working in the United Kingdom. She offers a calm, practical approach and aims to help people manage anxiety, reduce stress and build more confident lives. Geraldine writes simply and talks in plain language so clients can focus on small, usable changes.
Her work often centres on relationships and on the effects of past hurt. She supports people dealing with trauma and difficult or abusive relationships, helping them to understand patterns and to feel safer in themselves.
Background and approach
She also helps with depression, grief, intimacy-related issues and self-esteem. Geraldine uses a flexible, person-focused way of working. She draws on Client-Centred Therapy to keep the session grounded in the client's experience and on Psychodynamic Therapy to look at recurring patterns from the past.
Sessions aim to be practical and supportive, with space to reflect and try new ways of coping. She has a long history of helping people navigate family problems, parenting stress, career difficulties and major life changes. Additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, body image and the impact of blended families and separation.
Geraldine is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are offered in English and are delivered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs.
Approach and online options for talking therapy
Client-Centred Therapy is about focusing on the person's experience in the session. It gives space for clients to lead the conversation while the counsellor reflects back what they hear and helps build self-understanding. This approach can suit people wanting non-judgemental listening for anxiety, stress or self-esteem concerns.Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns that repeat across relationships and over time. It helps people notice how early experiences shape current reactions and relationships, which can be useful for trauma, attachment or long-standing relationship difficulties.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Geraldine will explore goals, preferences and needs with each person and then agree a way of working together. That collaborative planning helps shape whether sessions stay practical and solution-focused or look more at deeper patterns.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation while phone sessions can fit a short check-in or someone who prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging let people write things out and work asynchronously when that better fits a busy day. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on progress and practical support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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