Deborah Gray
Compassionate practical therapy for adults
About Deborah
Deborah Gray helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression or difficult life changes. She works with adults who are struggling with relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, sleep problems and anger. Deborah aims to make therapy practical and straightforward so people can use what they learn each week.
She has ten years of experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Background and approach
Deborah describes her style as warm and person-focused. Sessions are interactive and grounded in everyday language rather than technical terms. Her work draws on several approaches so she can adapt to what each person needs.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small steps. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits. Attachment-informed ideas guide work around trust and closeness.
Deborah has supported people coping with grief, caregiver stress, compassion fatigue and the emotional impact of physical or sexual trauma. She also helps with issues such as abandonment, body image, communication problems and adjustment after major life events. Sessions can use different formats to fit routines and preferences.
Deborah supports English-speaking clients and works with people internationally. She emphasises collaboration, clear goals and steady practical progress.
What Deborah works with
How Deborah works
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Sessions & fees
How Deborah’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people get clearer about what matters to them and take small, value-led steps. Online ACT work often combines short exercises, behavioural experiments and discussions about what the client cares about most.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and routines. In remote sessions this can include thought records, behavioural tasks and problem-solving between meetings.
Attachment-Informed work looks at patterns of trust and closeness that affect relationships and emotional safety. Through conversation and reflective exercises, clients can practise different ways of relating and build stronger emotional awareness.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Deborah will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs and then agree a plan together. That collaborative process means methods can shift as progress is made or priorities change.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day and need less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing reflection or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent alongside work, family and travel.
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- 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
