David Mayes
Human-centred counsellor for complex life challenges
About David
David Mayes is a counsellor with eight years' experience in the United Kingdom. He uses a human-centred way of working and aims to make people feel welcome from the first session. David focuses on practical conversation and helping people find what works for them day to day.
He has supported people facing addiction and substance misuse, including pornography-related concerns, and those coping with depression and anxiety. He also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief and trauma, and stresses connected to work and caring roles.
Background and approach
Additional areas of focus include ADHD, attachment and abandonment issues, and concerns around body image and sexual expression such as kink and alternative sexual culture. David has worked in a range of settings including NHS services, IAPT and in a forensic context. He has experience offering both short-term and longer-term counselling, and has worked with people in the UK and internationally.
He communicates in English. His style is approachable and polite. He aims to create a space where people can speak openly and test out different ways of coping.
Sessions are guided by the person’s priorities and paced to their needs. Practically, sessions can be held by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. David explains how therapy works, helps set clear goals, and supports people as they try new strategies between sessions.
People who want to start are asked to use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire to arrange sessions.
What David works with
How David works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches online and how they help
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person rather than a fixed plan. The counsellor offers empathy, respect and genuine listening to help people make sense of their feelings and choices. This approach can be helpful for relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, grief and stress where being heard matters more than a specific technique.David uses this human-centred way of working to guide conversations and to set goals that matter to the individual. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. He will discuss options, check what feels useful, and adjust the way sessions run to match the client's needs and preferences.
Online sessions can be done by video, phone, live chat or text messaging to fit different lives. Video calls let people see facial cues and body language. Phone sessions work well when a quieter connection or less bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins, rapid support between sessions, or people who prefer not to use audio or video. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and different time zones.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
