About Deborah
Deborah Marku is a counsellor who uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety and related concerns. She works from a strengths-based view and sees clients as experts in their own stories. Deborah aims to make the first steps feel manageable and supportive.
Deborah draws on six years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. Her work includes supporting people dealing with trauma and abuse, eating and food-related issues, sleep difficulties and low self-esteem.
How Deborah works
She also helps with career worries, coping with life changes and compassion fatigue arising from caring roles. She has specific experience with attention and concentration difficulties such as ADHD, and with neurodivergence including Autism and dyslexia. Deborah also works with issues around attachment, abandonment and intimacy-related concerns.
Her background includes work related to ageing and geriatric issues and chronic health conditions. Her practical methods include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy, alongside Internal Family Systems. In sessions she aims to combine short-term problem-solving with ways to build long-term resilience.
Conversations focus on clear steps, manageable exercises and what matters most to the individual. Deborah holds the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy accreditation, shown as BACP. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat or text messaging and conducts work in English for clients in the United Kingdom.
To begin she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a session.
Deborah lists 4 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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 with practical formats
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites people to clarify their personal values and take small actions that match those values, while learning to sit with difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them. ACT can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions where meaning and motivation matter.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviours. It is commonly used for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems and often includes short exercises between sessions to practise new skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Deborah will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then tailor methods accordingly in collaboration with each person. This means sessions can move between problem-focused techniques and deeper internal work depending on need.
Online formats offer practical advantages. Video calls give a face-to-face conversation when travel is difficult. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a shorter check-in during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging let people write through thoughts or keep a therapeutic thread across the week. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into everyday 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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