About Declan
Declan Kent is a counsellor who focuses on helping people feel steadier and more able to face specific worries. He works with individuals dealing with anxiety, low self-esteem, phobias, stress and other concerns that make daily life harder. His approach is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at small steps that add up to real change.
Declan trained in psychology and completed a masters in counselling and psychotherapy. He also spent time volunteering as an honorary assistant psychologist in hospital settings, where he saw many different problems and responses to treatment.
Background and approach
That early clinical experience shaped his belief that behaviour and feelings are often responses to difficult situations, not fixed traits. He uses a blend of approaches rather than one fixed method. Declan draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy ideas to teach coping skills.
He also works with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-informed ideas when those fit the person’s needs. Sessions are shaped around each person’s aims. He listens first, then suggests practical exercises and ways to test new behaviours between sessions.
Therapy can include skills practice, noticing patterns, and planning small experiments to reduce fear and avoidance. Declan has three years of clinical experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. He offers sessions in English and works with people located in the United Kingdom.
The focus is on supporting people to manage anxiety, phobias and related life stresses so they can move forward.
Approaches that suit online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, phobias and difficulties that come from avoiding uncomfortable feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying thinking patterns and testing them with practical exercises to reduce fear and worry. It often helps when fears are keeping someone from everyday activities. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape expectations and current reactions; it can help with trust, intimacy-related concerns and patterns that leave someone feeling alone.Finding the right fit is a shared process. Declan works collaboratively to pick approaches that match a person’s goals and preferences. Some people start with CBT-style exercises, then add ACT or attachment work as new issues come up. The plan can change as the work progresses and as different needs emerge.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and work through exercises together, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in, and live chat or text messaging allows shorter, regular contact between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties or a busy day while keeping the same therapeutic methods in place.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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