Denis Bruce
Gentle, experienced therapy for practical change
About Denis
Denis Bruce offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. He helps with stress, relationship worries, trauma, low self-esteem, addiction concerns and grief. Sessions aim to reduce daily strain and help people make clearer choices.
He has 25 years of experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Denis keeps things straightforward and non-judgemental. He focuses on building a reliable therapeutic relationship so people feel heard and understood from the first meeting.
Background and approach
His work blends talking therapy with focused, practical tools. Denis uses cognitive behavioural ideas to challenge unhelpful thoughts and attachment-informed approaches to look at relationship patterns. He also offers EMDR for people coping with distressing memories and existential thinking to address life meaning and direction.
Sessions can be tailored - some people prefer structured, goal-led work while others choose a gentler pace to process emotions. Denis helps identify patterns, practise new ways of coping, and strengthen decision-making skills. The aim is to create steady change that fits into everyday life.
People bring a wide range of issues, including anger, intimacy-related problems, sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, career decisions, chronic illness, guilt and compassion fatigue. Denis works collaboratively to prioritise the concerns that matter most to each person. He accepts clients in the United Kingdom and internationally and holds sessions online and by phone.
What Denis works with
How Denis works
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Sessions & fees
How Denis’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help people notice how they relate to others and practise new ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. In remote sessions Denis uses clear exercises and practical homework to help manage anxiety, low mood and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Denis will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and choose methods together. That collaborative decision means the therapy can be tailored to be structured or more exploratory as needed.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different lifestyles. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, while phone sessions suit people who prefer not to be on camera or have limited bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, journalling between sessions, or when immediate written support feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
