Deborah Steel
A steady, practical counsellor for life stressors
About Deborah
Deborah Steel welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or worn down by life. She writes in plain terms and offers a calm, steady presence to help clients make small, practical changes. Deborah is based in the United Kingdom and brings 12 years of experience to her work.
She trained to a BA (Hons) level in counselling and is a member of the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy, often shown as BACP.
Background and approach
In sessions she focuses on creating a non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be spoken about openly. Conversations tend to be straightforward and focused on what matters to each person right now. Deborah uses a variety of approaches depending on what the client needs.
She draws on client-centred work to follow the person’s lead, cognitive behavioural ideas to spot and change unhelpful thinking, and emotionally-focused tools to clarify important relationship feelings. Mindfulness and existential themes can also appear when useful. Common topics she helps people with include stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy issues and parenting strains.
She also works with concerns such as ADHD, chronic illness, career stress and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include adoption and attachment-related themes. Sessions are practical and compassionate.
Deborah encourages questions and aims to help people set clear, manageable goals. Her style suits those who want a supportive listener plus useful techniques to make day-to-day life easier.
What Deborah works with
How Deborah works
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Sessions & fees
How Deborah’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on following the person’s perspective and offering empathic listening. Online sessions using this approach give clients space to talk and be heard, helping to build clarity and confidence. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together and offers simple exercises to try between sessions to reduce anxiety and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name core feelings in relationships and personal patterns, which can shift how they respond to stressful situations.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Deborah discusses options with each person and picks methods based on their goals, preferences and what feels manageable. She treats this as a collaborative process and adapts strategies if something does not fit.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make sessions easier to fit into life. Video calls suit conversations that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging work well for short check-ins or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats offer flexibility for people balancing work, family or health needs.
| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
