Davinia Eccleston
Understanding counselling that fits you
About Davinia
Davinia Eccleston is a counsellor who works in an integrative way. She is a registered member of the BACP and has six years of professional experience. Davinia aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk about what is worrying them.
She focuses on listening closely and helping clients feel understood. Before practising online, Davinia worked as an NHS clinical team leader and as a counsellor in a GP practice.
Background and approach
That background guides how she combines different approaches to meet each person’s needs. She draws on client-centred ways of working to prioritise the person’s own goals and pace. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help people notice patterns in thoughts and behaviour and try practical changes.
Where past experiences are causing lasting distress, trauma-focused and psychodynamic ideas can be used to look at how earlier events affect current feelings. Sessions are conversational and aim to be straightforward. Davinia helps people tackle stress, anxiety, depression and relationship and family problems.
She also supports those coping with grief, addiction, eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD, anger and life changes. Additional areas of focus include caregiver stress, guilt and shame, immigration and multicultural concerns, prejudice and discrimination, and sexual assault and abuse. She can also help with fatherhood issues, financial worries and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Work is guided by the client’s agenda and may draw on solution-focused techniques when people want short-term, goal-orientated support. Sessions are offered in English and Davinia accepts clients in the United Kingdom and internationally.
What Davinia works with
How Davinia works
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Sessions & fees
How Davinia's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows the client’s pace, helping them clarify what matters and what they want to change. This approach suits people who need time to be heard and to build trust.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to reduce anxiety, improve mood and change unhelpful behaviours. This is useful when someone wants structured steps and homework tasks to try between sessions.
Trauma-Focused Therapy pays attention to how distressing events affect the body and mind now. It supports people to process painful memories and reduce their impact on daily life, using techniques chosen to match the client’s readiness.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels manageable, and then try methods together in a collaborative way. Plans can change as trust grows and needs shift.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, telephone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins and text messaging helps people who prefer to write. These options add flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy around work and family life.
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
