Deborah Faulkner
Practical, warm counselling for everyday struggles
About Deborah
Deborah Faulkner welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or depression. She is calm and direct, and she aims to help each person feel heard and understood. Deborah uses straightforward conversation to help people make small, practical changes in daily life.
She trained and practised in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration, which signifies professional membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Over the past ten years she has worked across a range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, parenting strain, sleep problems and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Deborah draws on several well-established approaches when planning sessions. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns, client-centred listening to prioritise the person in the room, and cognitive behavioural tools to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Mindfulness practices and psychodynamic thinking also inform her work when these fit a person's needs.
Sessions focus on clear, practical steps alongside space to talk through feelings. Deborah aims to help people build coping skills, improve self-esteem and manage life changes in manageable ways. She pays attention to patterns from early life that still affect daily choices and relationships.
Her writing and explanations avoid jargon. The tone is practical and warm, with an emphasis on steady progress rather than quick fixes. Deborah encourages gentle curiosity about difficult experiences and guides people toward realistic next steps.
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Sessions & fees
How Deborah’s approaches work online
Deborah typically draws on attachment-based work and cognitive behavioural therapy in online sessions. Attachment-based work looks at recurring relationship patterns and how early experiences shape current responses, which can help when intimacy, abandonment or communication issues feel stuck. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioural changes to reduce anxiety, low mood or sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Deborah will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences and then choose methods that suit those aims. This is a collaborative process that can adapt as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make counselling more flexible. Video lets people read facial cues and have a conversational session. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit shorter check-ins or times when a written conversation fits better. These options make it easier to fit counselling into a busy life and to keep continuity of care from different locations.
| 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
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- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
