Denise Garrett
Gentle counsellor for life's difficult moments
About Denise
Denise Garrett is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with six years of clinical experience helping people through difficult life moments. She holds BACP accreditation which appears on her professional record. Denise aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and respectful.
She focuses on stress and anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. She also helps people navigate challenges such as abandonment, attachment issues, blended family concerns, body image, and caregiver stress.
Background and approach
Denise can support those managing addiction, eating problems, and the emotional impact of serious illness. Her style is gentle and down-to-earth. Conversations are shaped around each person’s needs, not a fixed script.
She listens closely and works with clients to set simple, practical goals that fit day-to-day life. Sessions aim to build safety and clarity so people can talk about painful memories or current struggles without being overwhelmed. Denise places a strong emphasis on respect and sensitivity in sessions.
She adapts pacing and techniques to suit how someone prefers to work. Therapy with Denise is collaborative. She helps people explore what matters most, try new ways of coping, and make steady changes.
The overall aim is to help someone feel more able to manage emotions and relationships.
What Denise works with
How Denise works
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Sessions & fees
Client-centred care online and how it helps
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding a person’s experience from their point of view. The therapist provides a listening, non-judgemental presence and follows what the client brings to sessions. This approach helps with issues like anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and grief by giving space to organise feelings and make personal decisions.Deciding on an approach is a shared process. Denise will work collaboratively to find what feels right for each person, adjusting style and pace based on goals and preferences. That way the method used reflects the client’s needs rather than a fixed plan.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep regular sessions and fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.
| 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
