Dea Richardson
Experienced therapist focusing on trauma and recovery
About Dea
Dea Richardson brings eight years of clinical experience to her work in the United Kingdom. She is listed with the NCPS and begins by listening carefully to a person's story. She believes people hold strengths that help them move through hard times, and she offers steady, practical support while someone finds their own way forward.
Her sessions tend to be collaborative and straightforward. She focuses on what is most troubling now - for example anxiety, depression, grief, or struggles with addiction - and looks for steps that feel doable.
Background and approach
She also addresses patterns linked to past trauma, attachment wounds, or difficult family dynamics. Dea uses a mix of approaches that match each person’s needs. She draws on acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behaviour techniques, and emotion-focused work to help people change painful thoughts, manage strong feelings, and reconnect with what matters.
She offers skills for managing stress and relapse prevention tools for addictions. People come to her with a wide range of concerns. These include eating difficulties, low self-esteem, career stress, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD-related struggles, and relationship problems such as communication or commitment issues.
She also supports those coping with abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, and separation or divorce. In sessions she aims for clear, respectful conversation. Practical tasks between sessions are common, along with techniques to handle overwhelming emotion.
Over time the focus is on increased coping, clearer choices, and rebuilding a life that feels more manageable and meaningful.
What Dea works with
How Dea works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts while focusing on values and small actions that matter. It suits people who want to reduce struggle with worry, low mood, or life transitions by practising skills rather than chasing perfection.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours. It uses practical exercises and simple experiments to reduce anxiety, manage depression and change unhelpful habits over time.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on identifying and shifting patterns in how someone experiences and expresses strong feelings. It is useful for people who want clearer emotional understanding and better ways to respond in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will talk through goals, try techniques together, and adapt methods to fit personal needs and preferences. This collaborative process helps decide whether ACT, CBT, EFT or a mix works best for each person.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and demonstrations of exercises. Phone sessions suit shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging can support brief updates, homework, or ongoing coaching between calls. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel, while keeping a steady route to progress.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
