About Patience
Patience Destiny helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or uncertain about next steps. She writes in a straightforward way and creates space for people to say what matters to them. Patience is Patience Destiny and she brings 13 years of experience as a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom.
Sessions are offered in English and she works with clients internationally. Her approach begins by listening to what each person is living through.
How Patience works
She focuses on practical changes and clearer thinking, while also paying attention to emotions and personal stories. That could mean looking at unhelpful thinking patterns, noticing what matters most, or finding new ways to tell and understand difficult memories. Patience combines methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and client-centred work to tailor each session.
She draws on mindfulness and narrative ideas too, depending on what a person needs. This flexible mix helps with anxiety, low mood, grief, eating and body image concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, stress and many other worries listed in her specialisms. Conversations are warm and interactive.
She encourages practical steps you can try between sessions, alongside space to talk about feelings and family history if that matters. She also supports people facing career strain, caregiver stress, compassion fatigue and life changes. To begin, follow the site's Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and book a time that suits you.
Sessions are delivered by video call, phone, live chat or messaging so people can choose what fits their routine.
Patience lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Patience works with
The areas below are the ones Patience selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How her approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and then take actions that match their values; it is often used for anxiety, avoidance and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at how thoughts, behaviours and feelings interact and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and sleep problems. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and supporting a person's own pace and direction, and it helps when someone needs a supportive space to make sense of their feelings.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Patience will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their goals, needs and preferences. She adapts techniques as therapy progresses and checks in regularly to make sure the plan is helpful.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls are close to face-to-face and work well for deeper sessions, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier when movement is an issue, and live chat or messaging suit short check-ins, flexible schedules or people who prefer typing. These options give practical flexibility while keeping the therapeutic focus on what someone wants to change.
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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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