About Deborah
Deborah Flett is a counsellor who draws on a person-centred, pluralistic way of working. She uses straightforward conversation to help people sort through anxiety, low mood, relationship strain and major life changes. Deborah offers a calm, respectful presence and helps clients decide how to move forward.
With three years’ experience in adult services, she has supported people facing grief, trauma and abuse. She has also worked with clients managing addictions, chronic illness, neurological health challenges and struggles around parenting and sleeping.
How Deborah works
Her background includes helping those dealing with work stress, career decisions and compassion fatigue. Her practice blends humanistic care with psychodynamic thinking and cognitive behavioural techniques. Deborah uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and hypnotherapy when these fit a person’s goals.
She emphasises shared decision making so people shape their own pathway through therapy. Sessions focus on practical steps as well as understanding patterns that keep someone stuck. Deborah talks through coping strategies, communication difficulties and ways to rebuild self-esteem.
She helps people set small, realistic goals and reviews progress together. People looking for a straightforward, collaborative counsellor will find a clear approach to common life stresses. Deborah works in English and practises in the United Kingdom under the NCPS credential.
To begin she asks people to reflect on what they want from therapy and brings gentle encouragement to each step.
Deborah lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Deborah works with
The areas below are the ones Deborah selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without letting them control actions, and focuses on committing to meaningful steps even when feelings are hard. It is useful for anxiety, depression and coping with large life changes.Client-Centred Therapy puts the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. The counsellor offers empathy and reflection so people can explore values, rebuild self-esteem and make decisions at their own pace.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with sleeping problems, anxiety and low mood by breaking problems into manageable tasks.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Deborah will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then try methods collaboratively and adjust as needed. This shared planning helps people feel involved and clear about the next steps.
Online sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone appointments, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a short break at work, while live chat or messaging can be used for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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