Deborah Allan, BACP

Client-centred therapy puts the person's experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor listens closely and follows what matters most to the client, which helps people feel heard and understood when they talk about stress, grief or relationship worries.

Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours connect. It offers simple tools to test unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviours, which can help with anxiety, low mood and motivation problems.

Psychodynamic work explores patterns that repeat across relationships and life choices. It can be useful when people want to understand deeper sources of persistent difficulties like attachment problems or long-standing emotional pain.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Deborah will discuss options and adapt methods to fit the client's needs, goals and preferences. She treats this as a collaborative process and checks in about which techniques are helpful as therapy progresses.

Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people read facial cues and have a fuller conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can work well for a shorter check-in, and live chat or messaging suits people who prefer typed reflection or need brief, flexible contact. These formats increase accessibility and help maintain continuity of care across locations.