Deon Whittaker
Supportive counsellor for trauma and relationships
About Deon
Deon Whittaker is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who aims to support people facing stress, anxiety and relationship concerns. He has eight years of professional experience and holds the NCPS credential. He speaks English and accepts international clients, offering several remote ways to meet.
Deon approaches therapy with respect and sensitivity. He uses a flexible mix of methods and will explore what feels most helpful in early sessions.
Background and approach
That might mean focusing on attachment patterns, discussing personal meaning, or using techniques to process traumatic memories. He has worked with people coping with trauma and abuse, mood conditions such as bipolar disorder and depression, and with those affected by addictions or compassion fatigue.
He also supports people dealing with parenting strains, grief, anger, low self-esteem and the challenges that come with life changes. Additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, intimacy concerns including kink and BDSM cultures, communication and control issues, gender dysphoria, and first responder stress. These topics often overlap, and Deon aims to untangle what matters most for each person.
In a first session he will listen closely to concerns and priorities, then agree practical steps to try. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or messaging. Therapy uses a subscription that can be cancelled at any time, and scheduling is arranged after completing a short matching questionnaire.
What Deon works with
How Deon works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that shape online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships influence current patterns. It helps people understand connection, trust and recurring relationship problems in simple, practical ways. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method that helps reduce the impact of distressing memories by using guided attention and structured processing. It can support people coping with past abuse or other overwhelming events.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will listen to your concerns, goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. That choice is collaborative and may change as you make progress or as new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more accessible. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Text and chat formats suit brief check-ins, written reflection or flexible scheduling around work and family commitments.
| 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
