About Dilnia
Dilnia Horton aims to help people who are worried about relationships, family life, eating concerns, parenting and self-esteem. She speaks English and Kurdish and brings 13 years of experience to her work. She holds BACP which denotes membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
Dilnia focuses on practical, everyday problems such as communication breakdowns, blended family strains, and body image worries. She works with people who are coping with separation, abandonment, adoption and foster care challenges, or the stress of caregiving.
How Dilnia works
Sessions look at how patterns of behaviour and feeling affect daily life. Her approach draws on a few well-established methods. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and try out different ways of thinking.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at feelings behind relationship difficulties and aims to improve connection between people. She also uses mindfulness to build awareness and psychodynamic ideas to consider past patterns that repeat now. In a typical session she listens, asks clear questions and suggests simple exercises to try between meetings.
She supports people dealing with dependent or avoidant personality traits, dissociation, control issues and commitment fears. The work is collaborative and paced to each person. Sessions are offered in the United Kingdom and are carried out online or by phone.
Dilnia describes starting therapy as a step many find hard, and she aims to make the first steps straightforward and respectful.
Dilnia lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Dilnia works with
The areas below are the ones Dilnia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English, Kurdish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try practical changes in everyday life. It is useful for managing eating concerns, low self-esteem and specific worries about relationships. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on feelings behind relationship patterns and aims to help people build clearer emotional connection and resolve communication problems. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus in stressful moments.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your situation, goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. This is a collaborative process and the plan can be adjusted as you make progress or as your needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day, while chat or messaging suits shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help make regular sessions more achievable alongside work and family commitments.
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