Deborah Faulkner, BACP

Deborah Faulkner is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief and depression. She speaks English and works with adults across a wide range of life challenges. Deborah aims to make the first step easier by offering a calm space where difficult thoughts and feelings can be named.

Deborah has around 10 years of professional experience and practises in line with her BACP standing. She focuses on creating an open, non-judgemental environment so people can talk honestly about what is worrying them. She often supports people struggling after trauma, those coping with life changes, and those carrying the strain of caregiving or long-term illness.

Her approach draws on attachment-based ideas and client-centred listening, alongside practical tools from cognitive behavioural therapy and mindfulness. Sessions aim to clarify patterns, reduce overwhelming feelings, and develop small, manageable changes that fit into daily life. Deborah also uses psychodynamic thinking to look at long-standing relationship patterns when that helps.

She works with concerns such as parenting stress, intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, ADHD, and workplace strain including compassion fatigue and career questions. Additional areas of focus include adoption and foster care, ageing and geriatric issues, chronic illness, and body image concerns.

Deborah encourages people to move at their own pace and to set clear goals together. She uses simple, direct language in sessions and helps people build skills they can use between meetings.

How Deborah's approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in relationships and how earlier experiences shape current reactions; online sessions can be used to notice those patterns and practise new ways of responding. Client-centred therapy puts the person's experience at the centre and relies on empathic listening and reflection to help people feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) offers practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and habits, useful for anxiety, sleep problems, low mood and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Deborah works collaboratively to identify which methods suit each person’s needs and goals. Together they will try options and adjust the emphasis as progress and preferences become clearer.

Session options are not listed in the biography, so please confirm which formats are available before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also help people who live far from a counsellor or who need therapy across different time zones. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises, homework and mindfulness practices to an online setting so that sessions remain practical and focused on everyday change.