Deborah Ndagire
Compassionate practical therapy for difficult times
About Deborah
Deborah Ndagire helps people facing addictions, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief and depression. She is a BACP counsellor with nine years of professional experience. Deborah writes simply and directly in sessions to make it easier to talk about hard things.
Her style is calm and patient. She encourages people to speak openly about painful memories and current struggles. Deborah aims to make therapy a space where thoughts and feelings can be named and examined without judgement.
Background and approach
She uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect. That approach is used alongside a reflective way of working that pays attention to deeper patterns from earlier relationships and life events. Sessions balance practical steps with time to understand roots of distress.
Deborah has supported people with a wide range of concerns, including substance use, eating and body image worries, abandonment and attachment difficulties, codependency and communication problems. She also helps people coping with illness, bereavement, dissociation, and the upheaval of separation. Sessions are conducted in English and are offered to people in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Her work is suited to those who want straightforward, compassionate support and a mixture of short-term coping tools and longer conversations about life patterns.
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How Deborah works
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Sessions & fees
How CBT and reflective work translate to online therapy
CBT focuses on how thoughts, feelings and actions influence each other and uses simple exercises to test and change unhelpful thinking. It can help with depression, anxiety, addictive behaviours, and problems like low mood or negative body image.Alongside CBT, Deborah uses a reflective approach that considers how past relationships and early experiences shape current responses. This helps people notice repeating patterns such as attachment or control issues and make different choices in daily life.
Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try practical strategies, and adjust the balance between skills-based CBT and deeper reflection as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer flexibility and convenience. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a fuller interaction is helpful. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a workday. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, written reflections, or times when typing feels more comfortable. Registered or accredited professionals offer these formats so therapy can fit around everyday life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
