Deirdre Levins
A practical, person-focused counsellor
About Deirdre
Deirdre Levins helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression and addiction. She supports those dealing with grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, eating and body-image issues, and career or life changes. She also works with people experiencing compassion fatigue, trauma and abuse, and a range of family-related challenges.
Deirdre uses a coaching-minded, practical style that focuses on small, useful steps people can try between sessions. She blends well-known talking therapies to suit each person.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and noticing patterns that keep problems going. Deirdre draws on approaches that encourage acceptance, awareness, and clearer thinking to help people make steady change. Deirdre has eight years of clinical experience and holds NCPS.
That credential is shown as NCPS. Her background includes working one-to-one with adults on common and complex difficulties, helping them find tools that fit everyday life. In practice she keeps sessions straightforward and goal-focused.
People leave with practical ideas to try and ways to measure progress. She aims to create a calm, patient atmosphere where a person’s values guide the work. Deirdre offers sessions in English from the United Kingdom.
She accepts international clients and provides several online session formats. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to availability.
What Deirdre works with
How Deirdre works
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches translate to online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, encourages people to notice difficult thoughts and feelings and to act in line with what matters to them. It can help with anxiety, depression and coping with life changes by focusing on values and small committed actions.Client-Centred Therapy puts the person’s experience at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens closely and reflects back, helping someone feel heard while they make sense of their own goals and choices.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try out different behaviours. It is often useful for anxiety, low mood and stress because it gives clear strategies to practise between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a person’s needs, goals and preferences. Sessions can adapt over time as priorities change and as practical techniques are tested.
Online therapy offers flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation, while phone sessions can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth needs. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, written reflections or when someone prefers typed communication. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to access registered or accredited professionals 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
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
