About Desta
Desta "Dee" Davies-Boothe uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people manage stress and anxiety. She combines talk-based work with techniques that target thinking patterns, mindful awareness, and personal meaning. Dee keeps sessions steady and straightforward so parents can make sense of next steps quickly.
She has three years of professional experience working in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That registration is shown as BACP.
How Desta works
Dee draws on several approaches to suit different needs, including client-centred work, cognitive behavioural tools, mindfulness, narrative ways of understanding problems, and existential ideas about meaning and choice. In sessions she listens first, then helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of responding. She works slowly through practical steps for anger, relationship strain, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
Mindfulness exercises and brief cognitive strategies are used to reduce tension and improve day-to-day coping. Dee also supports people with issues linked to adoption and foster care, attachment and abandonment, caregiving stress, body image, and adjustment to ageing. She tailors conversations and goals to each person.
Appointments aim to build small, achievable changes rather than quick fixes. Her style is respectful and warm, with a focus on helping clients find clearer choices. Sessions are intended to empower people to manage feelings and rebuild confidence over time.
Desta lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Desta works with
The areas below are the ones Desta selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| 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
Therapeutic approaches and online delivery
Client-centred work places the person at the heart of the conversation and focuses on listening and understanding. This approach helps people feel heard and clarify what matters to them before setting goals.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers simple strategies to test and change unhelpful thinking. It is useful for anxiety, anger and low self-esteem because it targets patterns that keep problems going.
Mindfulness helps people notice moments of stress without getting swept away by them. Short practices taught in sessions can reduce reactivity and support calmer responses in daily life.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through different methods and decide together which fits a person's needs, goals and preferences. That collaborative process can include trying a few techniques and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls are close to face-to-face work and let visual cues guide the conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for people who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short check-ins, shorter therapy bursts or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep continuity when travel or routine changes occur.
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