About Tracey
Tracey Lynne Desjardins helps people who are anxious, grieving, struggling with addiction, or facing major life changes. She is a therapeutic counsellor with four years' experience and holds NCPS. Tracey writes plainly and works to make therapy feel manageable for someone overwhelmed by emotion.
Tracey uses emotional therapy and inner child work to help people identify where painful patterns began. She listens for how early experiences influence day-to-day choices. Sessions focus on gentle techniques to reduce panic, manage negative thoughts, and build clearer coping steps.
Background and approach
Her background includes roles in the criminal justice sector where she worked with relationship difficulties, addiction and sexualised behaviours. That experience informs how she sees patterns of behaviour and safety needs. She also volunteers with Cruse Bereavement Services and has practical experience supporting people through grief.
Tracey draws on several approaches in session. She uses client-centred listening to follow what matters most to each person. Emotionally focused ideas help when feelings and attachment patterns are getting in the way.
Mindfulness and motivational methods provide simple tools for managing stress and staying motivated to change. People often come for help with anxiety, depression, trauma, low self-esteem, parenting stress, eating and sleeping problems, or challenges after separation. Tracey also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, and issues around identity and intimacy.
Her sessions aim to make progress feel steady and achievable.
How Tracey's Approaches Work Online
Tracey often uses client-centred work, which means sessions begin by following what matters most to the person. The therapist listens closely and shapes sessions around the client's priorities, helping people feel heard and understood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is also part of her practice; it looks at how attachment and strong feelings affect relationships and personal wellbeing and can help when emotions repeatedly lead to conflict or avoidance.She also uses mindfulness techniques to teach simple breathing and awareness practices that reduce stress and interrupt panic. Mindfulness can be helpful for anxiety, sleep problems, and managing strong emotions between sessions. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work; Tracey collaborates with each client to agree what feels useful, adjusts methods as progress is made, and checks in about goals and preferences throughout therapy.
Online therapy gives practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or for quicker check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit brief updates, reflection between sessions, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, or travel while keeping the therapeutic focus consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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