About Deborah
Deborah Steel is a counsellor who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or big life changes. She meets clients with kindness and practical care. Deborah keeps language simple and focuses on what people want to change in their day-to-day life.
She trained to a BA (Hons) in Counselling and is a member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP). Over twelve years she has supported people dealing with depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and intimacy-related concerns.
How Deborah works
She also works with people facing career pressure, parenting strain, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue. Deborah draws on client-centred work to listen closely and make space for what matters to the person in front of her. She uses cognitive behavioural ideas to spot patterns that keep problems going and to try small, testable changes.
Emotionally-focused and mindfulness approaches help clients name feelings and build steadier ways of responding. Sessions are practical and conversational. Deborah helps people break big worries into manageable steps.
She can coach on decision points, sleep and anger issues, and improving communication. People can expect collaborative goal-setting and a steady pace. Deborah encourages questions and together they map out what progress looks like.
Her style is calm, direct and supportive as people work toward clearer choices and more balance in life.
Deborah lists 10 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Deborah’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy places the client's experience at the heart of sessions. Deborah listens without judgement and follows what the person says, helping them clarify goals and priorities. This approach suits practical concerns like stress, decision-making and coaching goals.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going. Deborah uses simple exercises to test unhelpful patterns and to try small changes that can reduce anxiety, low mood or sleep disruption.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and name strong emotions and then learn different ways to respond. This can be useful for intimacy-related worries, attachment issues and improving communication skills.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Deborah will discuss options with the client and agree what to try first based on their needs and preferences. The plan can be adjusted as progress is made, so therapy stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for a full conversational session, phone works well if bandwidth is limited, live chat and text are helpful for quick check-ins or when written reflection is preferred. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, childcare or health limitations and to keep continuity between appointments.
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A practical next step
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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