About Deborah
Deborah Gray offers calm, practical support for adults facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship strain. She writes in simple terms and aims to help people feel steadier, clearer and more able to cope. Deborah is a BACP counsellor with ten years of experience and she works with a wide range of concerns.
Her approach is warm and human-centred. Sessions are interactive and respectful. Deborah combines techniques from several approaches to suit each person’s needs.
How Deborah works
She helps people manage trauma and abuse, grief and loss, intimacy-related issues and sleeping problems. She also addresses self-esteem, anger, compassion fatigue and coping with life changes. Additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, caregiver stress and communication problems.
Deborah uses elements from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside attachment-based and client-centred work. That mix is intended to make therapy practical and personally relevant. Over a typical course of sessions she will listen, reflect what matters to the client and try different strategies together.
The aim is to build clearer routines, steadier emotions and more useful ways of relating to others. Deborah accepts international clients and runs sessions from Kentucky in English.
Deborah lists 11 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kentucky |
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Online support options
How Deborah’s approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, low motivation and making life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and introduces small experiments and tools to reduce distress. It is often used for anxiety, depression and sleep issues. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people understand and change difficult emotional responses and can be useful for relationship and attachment-related concerns.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Deborah will discuss goals and preferences in early sessions and try approaches that fit the person. That may mean mixing methods so the work is practical and relevant to the issues raised.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video can be used for in-depth conversations and exercises, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging is helpful for ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule around work, travel or caregiving commitments and to continue therapy while living in a different region.
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