Debra Hayman
Compassionate, practical therapy for lifes challenges
About Debra
Debra Hayman offers a warm, down-to-earth approach that puts the person at the centre of therapy. She combines client-centred work with practical techniques to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction and relationship strain. Debra makes space for honest conversation and steady support when life feels overwhelming.
With eight years of professional experience and BACP registration, she has worked extensively with drug and alcohol misuse and related mental health problems. That background means she understands how low self-esteem, trauma, grief and domestic abuse can affect day-to-day life.
Background and approach
She also addresses eating concerns, anger, burnout and compassion fatigue. Debra uses a mix of approaches tailored to each person. She draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and on emotionally-focused work to improve how people connect with others.
Mindfulness and existential perspectives help people find meaning and steadiness through change. Sessions are practical and conversational. Debra helps people set small, achievable goals and develop coping strategies they can use between meetings.
She encourages gradual steps rather than quick fixes. People can expect a calm, non-judgemental space to talk through painful experiences and make real plans for change. Debra offers online options and works with individuals who need flexible ways to meet.
If someone is ready to begin, she guides them through the first steps toward getting support.
What Debra works with
How Debra works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Debra uses client-centred therapy to create a listening space where a person feels heard and understood. That approach focuses on reflecting what someone says and helping them find their own solutions, which works well when someone needs to talk through feelings and decisions.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. CBT offers simple tools to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviours, and it can help with anxiety, low mood and compulsive patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy journey. Debra will discuss options and try methods that fit a person's goals and preferences, working together to adapt techniques so they feel useful and manageable.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or suit lower bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging provide brief written check-ins or ongoing contact between meetings. These options give flexibility for different schedules and communication styles, helping people maintain progress even when life is hectic.
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
