About Tracey
Tracey Lynne Desjardins offers calm, practical support for people facing anxiety, grief, addiction and relationship strain. She is Tracey, a counsellor who draws on life experience and therapeutic methods to help people notice what gets in the way of feeling better. Her style is gentle and direct, aimed at helping people make small, useful changes that add up over time.
Tracey trained as a therapeutic counsellor in 2020 and holds NCPS.
How Tracey works
Before retraining she worked in the criminal justice sector, which gave her experience with addiction, relationship difficulties, and sexualised behaviours. That background shapes how she listens and responds in sessions. She uses emotional therapy ideas alongside the inner child model to help people see where old patterns began.
Those tools are used to identify emotional blocks and to practise new ways of responding. She also works with mindfulness techniques to help reduce panic and constant worry. Tracey volunteers with Cruse Bereavement Services and has developed a practical understanding of grief and loss.
She supports people through bereavement, divorce and separation, and the difficult feelings that follow those events. Her approach includes client-centred listening, emotionally focused work and motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. Sessions aim to be collaborative, paced to the individual, and focused on everyday problems like sleep, eating, self-esteem and coping with life changes.
Tracey lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Tracey works with
The areas below are the ones Tracey selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Tracey’s approaches translate to online therapy
Tracey often draws on client-centred therapy, emotionally-focused therapy and mindfulness in her work. Client-centred therapy involves attentive, non-judgemental listening and helping people find their own solutions, which can be effective for issues like low self-esteem and life changes. Emotionally-focused therapy helps people recognise and shift patterns in how they relate to others and themselves, which is useful for relationship strain and intimacy-related issues. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple practices to reduce anxiety and manage stress by focusing on the present and noticing bodily and emotional responses.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with clients about their needs, goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. The choice of approach is collaborative and can change as progress is made or circumstances shift.
Online therapy offers practical ways to fit support into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions and live chat are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Text-based messaging can suit people who prefer writing to speaking or who want brief, regular support between sessions.
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