About Dea
Dea Richardson is a counsellor with eight years of practice based in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS as a listed credential and brings steady, experience-based support to people facing anxiety, depression, addiction and relationship strain. Dea writes plainly and invites practical steps rather than complex jargon.
She aims to help people feel understood and to work toward clearer day-to-day coping. Dea focuses on common but painful problems such as trauma and abuse, stress, grief, and eating concerns.
Background and approach
She also helps people navigate ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, and major life transitions like separation or career change. Sessions look at the issues that cause the most disruption in daily life and find realistic ways to reduce that disruption. Her approach draws on a few established therapies, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centred methods.
Dea combines practical skill-building with space to make sense of difficult feelings. The aim is to build tools that fit a person's life and values. People often come for help with family and relationship problems, codependency or attachment worries, abandonment and foster care concerns, or recovery from past abusive dynamics.
Dea pays attention to how past experiences shape present behaviour and to small changes that add up. Work can take the form of short-term focused support or longer-term coaching and therapy. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged for video, phone, live chat or text messaging to suit practical needs.
Dea encourages straightforward conversation about goals and next steps.
How therapeutic approaches meet online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, avoidance and life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches concrete strategies to change unhelpful patterns, useful for anxiety, depression and stress. Client-Centred Therapy offers a warm, non-judgemental space where the person sets the pace and the counsellor follows, which can help when someone needs to feel heard and understood.Finding the best approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms and preferences and try methods that fit those needs. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress and feedback indicate what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy more practical. Video lets people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a work break. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for shorter check-ins or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to build therapy into a busy life and to try different formats until one feels workable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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