About Geraldine
Geraldine Noel-Duke is a counsellor with 25 years' experience who supports people dealing with anxiety, stress and trauma. She also helps with eating and body image concerns, relationship and family problems, grief, low self-esteem and coping with life changes. Geraldine works with clients who want practical tools and everyday strategies to feel steadier and more able to manage difficult moments.
She uses a blend of gentle, goal-focused approaches. Sessions are collaborative and paced to suit each person.
Background and approach
Geraldine listens for what matters most and helps people decide on small, manageable steps. Her style is warm and direct, with an emphasis on building clearer thinking and stronger emotional skills. Geraldine trained and practised across therapy, psychology and coaching roles over many years.
She has worked in social care, education and family services in the United Kingdom and internationally. That background feeds into a practical approach that links feelings, behaviour and daily routines. Her methods include cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and change do-able habits.
She also draws on attachment-informed ideas to look at how relationships shape responses, and on acceptance and commitment tools to clarify personal values and goals. Sessions can include problem-solving, motivational work and skills for managing overwhelming feelings. People who choose Geraldine can expect focused sessions that balance emotional support with clear actions.
She aims to help clients reduce distress and build routines that support lasting change. Work often covers sleep, stress management, communication, self-worth and planning next steps.
How Geraldine adapts therapeutic approaches for online work
Geraldine commonly uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions. CBT offers practical exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and build new habits, which can be practised between sessions to reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify what matters to them and take committed action despite difficult feelings. ACT emphasises learning to live alongside unpleasant thoughts while moving toward meaningful goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Geraldine discusses different options with each person and helps choose methods that match their goals, preferences and daily life. That collaborative process means plans can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats available include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone calls suit people who need lower bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in during the day, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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