About Debra
Debra Hayman is a counsellor who uses client-centred listening and practical therapy to help people who feel stuck or overwhelmed. She draws on eight years of UK practice and a BACP credential to guide conversations about stress, anxiety, grief and eating or addiction concerns. Her approach is calm and straightforward and aims to make talking feel easier.
Debra adapts the way she works to what each person needs. She combines client-centred care with cognitive behavioural ideas and emotion-focused methods.
Background and approach
This helps people examine thoughts, notice patterns in relationships, and work through painful memories or reactions. Her background includes seven years working with drug and alcohol misuse, alongside supporting people affected by domestic violence, bullying and low self-esteem. That experience led to an interest in trauma, relationship problems and intimacy-related concerns.
She also helps with career stress, anger, bipolar and depression-related issues. Sessions typically focus on what is happening now and what practical steps can help. Debra uses mindfulness and existential ideas to help people find meaning, manage difficult feelings and cope with life changes.
She also supports those dealing with caregiver strain, ageing and blended family challenges. People who choose her work alongside the counsellor to set goals and try new ways of responding. The process is conversational and paced to suit the individual.
Debra accepts clients in the United Kingdom and works with international clients in English.
Practical approaches for online therapy and change
Debra draws on client-centred therapy which focuses on listening, acceptance and following what matters most to the person. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes the pace and direction of sessions to their needs.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and supports small, practical experiments to change unhelpful patterns. Emotionally-focused ideas are used when relationships or attachment patterns are central, helping people identify and shift the emotional responses that cause repeated conflict or distance.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Debra will discuss goals and preferences and together they will try methods that suit the person’s situation. The choice of approach can change as progress is made and new issues emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be more flexible and lower bandwidth, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and travel while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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