Desta "Dee" Davies-Boothe
Practical, empathetic therapy for stressful times
About Desta
Desta "Dee" Davies-Boothe uses a blend of client-centred listening and practical strategies to help people through hard times. She is called Dee by many clients and holds BACP registration in the United Kingdom. Her work emphasises empathy, clear goals, and steady support.
She keeps conversations straightforward and focused on what matters to the client now. Dee helps people manage stress and anxiety with tools they can use between sessions. She also supports work on anger, self-esteem and relationship patterns.
Background and approach
When life changes feel overwhelming she helps people break problems into manageable steps and build confidence again. Her approach draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to shift unhelpful thoughts and on narrative methods to reframe personal stories. Client-centred therapy guides how she listens, while mindfulness techniques help people notice and calm their reactions.
Dee adapts these methods to each person’s needs rather than following one fixed plan. With three years of professional experience, she focuses on practical progress alongside emotional understanding. She has additional experience with adoption and foster care matters, attachment concerns, body image, caregiver stress and coping after disasters.
Sessions are carried out in English and she works with people in the United Kingdom and internationally. Dee encourages small, steady changes and aims to make the work feel manageable. She asks about a person’s priorities and tailors conversations to those goals.
The process is collaborative, with clear steps and regular check-ins to track progress.
What Desta works with
How Desta works
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Listed by Desta among the ways they work.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Client-centred therapy is about being heard and respected. The therapist follows the person’s lead and shapes conversations around what feels most important to them, which helps build trust and clarity about goals.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on how thoughts and behaviours affect mood. It uses practical exercises and short homework tasks to help people test and change unhelpful patterns that feed anxiety or low mood.
Existential ideas are used to look at meaning, choice and responsibility when life feels uncertain. These conversations can help people clarify what matters to them and make decisions that fit their values.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options with the person and adapt methods to fit their needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process and plans can change as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility and easier access. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit times with lower bandwidth, live chat fits short check-ins, and text-based messaging helps when someone prefers writing or a slower pace. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caring duties and everyday life.
| 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
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
