About Debby
Debby Kirby helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, low self-esteem and relationship concerns. She also supports people coping with sleep and eating difficulties, parenting strain, bipolar and depression, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Debby is based in the United Kingdom and communicates in English.
Debby takes a plain-speaking, warm approach. Sessions are collaborative and practical. She uses creative tools such as art, poetry and visualisation alongside talk-based work to help people name feelings and try new ways of coping.
How Debby works
Many clients use online video to build rapport before moving into other formats. With four years of professional experience and the credential NCPS, Debby blends life experience with therapeutic practice. She draws on inner child work and trauma-informed methods to address complex grief, historic abuse, attachment issues and domestic violence related concerns.
She also supports people dealing with codependency, dissociation, addiction and major life changes. Debby often focuses on specific issues like abandonment, body image, blended family dynamics, communication problems and cancer-related distress. Her way of working aims to make difficult topics feel more manageable by breaking them into small steps and practical tasks people can try between sessions.
Getting started is straightforward: complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that suits you. Debby works with individual adults and is available to international clients for video, phone, chat or text sessions.
What Debby works with
The areas below are the ones Debby selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Debby combines talk-based therapy with creative techniques such as art and visualisation. Talk-based work helps people identify patterns, manage anxiety and process grief by naming thoughts and feelings. Creative methods like drawing, poetry and guided visualisation offer different ways to express emotions that can feel hard to say aloud.She also uses inner child work to explore early experiences that affect current relationships and self-worth. This approach gently looks at past wounds and supports practical steps for self-care and healthier boundaries, which can be useful for trauma, attachment and intimacy-related concerns.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, then try methods that fit the person's needs. If something does not feel helpful, they will adapt the plan together to find a better fit.
Online therapy brings practical benefits like flexible scheduling and easier access from different countries. Video calls let the therapist and client see non-verbal cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter exchanges, ongoing check-ins and times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, travel or family life.
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