About Davinia
Davinia Eccleston works from an integrative, client-focused stance that centres the person in the room. She is a BACP member and draws on different approaches to match what each person needs. Sessions aim to be calm and straightforward so people can talk openly about what is worrying them.
Davinia offers a space where clients are heard and treated with empathy. She focuses on helping people say what they have been holding on to and makes time to listen without rushing.
How Davinia works
The aim is to help people notice patterns and find practical steps that feel manageable. Her background includes clinical team leadership in the NHS and experience as a counsellor within a GP practice. That work gave her experience with a wide range of concerns from stress and anxiety to trauma and addictions.
She has six years of professional practice recorded. Davinia uses a mix of client-centred work and cognitive-behavioural ideas to help people change unhelpful thoughts and routines. She also draws on psychodynamic thinking to look at how past experiences influence current feelings.
Solution-focused techniques are used to set clear, short-term steps when helpful. Common areas she supports include low mood, relationship and parenting stresses, grief, work and career pressures, sleep and eating concerns, and issues such as ADHD, bipolar and compassion fatigue. She also works with people facing immigration or multicultural concerns, prejudice, isolation and sexual assault and abuse.
Sessions are offered in English and are available online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to therapist availability.
Davinia lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Davinia works with
The areas below are the ones Davinia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person rather than giving directives. It helps people feel heard and organised enough to talk about difficult feelings and relationships.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It uses simple exercises and practical steps to change unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, low mood, sleep and coping with life changes.
Davinia will work collaboratively to find the right mix of approaches. Together they will agree goals, try different techniques and adjust the plan as needs change. Finding the best fit is treated as a shared process rather than a one-size-fits-all solution.
Online sessions make it easier to attend from different places and at different times. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit quieter bandwidth and shorter check-ins, and live chat or text messaging can fit brief updates or ongoing support between longer sessions. These choices offer flexibility while keeping focus on what the person wants to achieve.
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