About Tracey
Tracey Lynne Desjardins is a counsellor who focuses on anxiety and related struggles. She offers a calm, straightforward approach that helps people facing panic, overwhelming worry, or stress find clearer ways to cope. Tracey draws on life experience from living abroad and previous roles in the criminal justice sector to shape how she works with clients.
She retrained as a therapeutic counsellor in 2020 and holds the NCPS credential. Tracey uses emotional therapy and the Inner Child model to help people see how past experiences shape current reactions.
Background and approach
She supports people to recognise emotional blocks and to practise new responses in everyday life. Her practice includes work with grief and bereavement, and she volunteers with Cruse Bereavement Services. That experience informs her approach when people face loss, separation, or major life change.
Tracey also has a background working with addiction and sexualised behaviours during her earlier career roles. Sessions tend to be gentle and exploratory, with an emphasis on understanding feelings and building practical coping skills. She draws from Client-Centred Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, mindfulness and motivational interviewing to guide conversations and set achievable steps.
Tracey accepts clients in the United Kingdom and also works with international clients in English. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life. The overall aim is to help people reduce distress and make clearer choices about their next steps.
How Tracey’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy places your experience at the centre of sessions. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps you find your own solutions, which can be useful for anxiety and self-esteem issues. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on understanding and shifting emotional responses in relationships and within yourself, helping when worry or attachment patterns cause distress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing exercises to reduce reactivity and manage stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Tracey will discuss your goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then try methods that match your needs. You can adjust the focus as you learn what brings relief and clarity, so the plan evolves with you.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or fit into a short break, and chat or text options suit ongoing support without needing to be on camera. These formats make it simpler to attend from different locations and to choose the style that works best for your energy and schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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