Patience Destiny
Compassionate counselling for life’s hard moments
About Patience
Patience Destiny helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to turn. She keeps sessions straightforward and practical. Her style is warm and respectful, and she aims to make therapy feel manageable even when life feels heavy.
Patience brings 13 years of experience and is a BACP member, practising from the United Kingdom and working with people internationally. She offers short and longer-term counselling depending on what someone needs.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on the issues a person brings in plain language, with goals set together. Her approach mixes methods to suit each person. Techniques from cognitive behavioural work are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try small experiments to change it.
Client-centred listening makes space for what matters most to the individual, and narrative ideas help people reframe difficult life stories. Sessions often include mindfulness exercises to calm the body and mind, and acceptance-based tools to help people live with hard feelings while making values-based choices.
Patience pays attention to everyday details like sleep, eating, and routine because these affect how someone copes day to day. She has supported people with stress, anxiety and depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, career worries and work-related compassion fatigue.
Other focuses include body image and eating concerns, attachment and family of origin issues, and challenges linked to adoption or blended families. Patience invites people to bring their whole selves, including humour and creativity, into sessions. She collaborates on practical steps and personal goals, then adjusts the plan as needs change.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions that suit them.
What Patience works with
How Patience works
Listed by Patience among the ways they work.
Listed by Patience among the ways they work.
Listed by Patience among the ways they work.
Listed by Patience among the ways they work.
Listed by Patience among the ways they work.
Listed by Patience among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How Patience’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on spotting and testing unhelpful thoughts and trying small behaviour changes to reduce distress. Client-Centred Therapy gives space for someone to be heard fully while the counsellor follows their pace and priorities.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Patience will discuss options and together they will choose methods that fit the person's goals, needs and preferences. That choice is reviewed as therapy progresses so the plan stays relevant and practical.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video allows face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, phone sessions can be useful if bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These formats give flexibility for people juggling work, family or travel while keeping therapy consistent and focused.
| 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
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
