About Debby
Debby Kirby is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, and phobias. She also helps people facing issues with relationships, intimacy, parenting, sleep, eating, ADHD and coping with life changes. Debby speaks English and works with clients internationally via online formats.
Debby uses creative tools alongside talking therapy, drawing on her background as an artist to offer things like guided visualisations, poetry prompts and painting as part of sessions when helpful.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at making difficult feelings easier to name and manage. She focuses on building trust and listening closely to each person's story. With four years of professional experience and the NCPS credential, Debby brings practical, down-to-earth support.
She emphasises inner child work and attachment-related approaches for people who want to explore early patterns that affect current relationships. Her style is warm and person-centred, with a focus on individual needs. People who prefer flexible formats can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging.
Sessions are arranged via a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time, and cost varies by location and availability. To start, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability. Debby aims to work collaboratively to set goals and pace the work to what feels manageable for each person.
Therapeutic approaches and online access
Debby offers a blend of talking therapy and creative methods that people often find helpful. Inner child work focuses on identifying early experiences that shape current feelings and behaviours, and can help with attachment issues, low self-esteem and relationship patterns. Guided visualisation and art-based techniques use imagery or simple creative exercises to help people express difficult emotions and practise new responses when words alone feel hard.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Debby will work with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, pace and comfort level, and she adapts the plan as the work progresses so it stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual tools, phone sessions suit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, live chat can be useful for real-time typed conversation, and messaging lets people reflect and reply in their own time. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family and daily life while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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