About Dea
Dea Richardson brings eight years of practical experience as a counsellor in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS and meets professional registration standards under that credential. Dea aims to create a calm and straightforward space where people can talk about heavy, upsetting things without being judged.
Her work focuses on common and complex difficulties such as anxiety, depression and bipolar mood challenges. She also helps people facing addictions, eating concerns, grief, and trauma-related issues.
How Dea works
Relationship and family strains, career stress and low self-esteem are other frequent topics she addresses. Dea draws on several approaches to suit different needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take manageable action.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Client-centred methods keep the person’s experience central to sessions. Sessions are intended to be collaborative.
Dea listens, asks questions, and offers practical tools to try between meetings. She will work with each person to shape a plan that fits their life and aims. People can expect clear language and short-term strategies alongside deeper work when needed.
Dea accepts international clients and runs sessions in English. Her background supports a wide range of concerns, and she helps people break problems down into steps they can handle.
Dea lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Dea works with
The areas below are the ones Dea selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify what matters to them, and take small steps towards those values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression and ongoing life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting thinking patterns and testing new behaviours to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It often includes practical exercises to try between sessions. Client-Centred Therapy places the person’s experience at the heart of the work, offering empathic listening and support to help people make their own choices.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, then agree on an approach to try. That plan can be reviewed and adjusted as progress unfolds so the method matches the person’s needs.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes therapy more flexible. Video calls are good when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is low or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit short check-ins, brief coaching-type support or when typed reflection feels easier. These options can help fit therapy around work, travel or caring responsibilities while keeping the same structured, professional therapeutic work.
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