Deborah Faulkner, BACP

Deborah Faulkner is a counsellor who listens without judgement and helps people facing big life shifts. She works with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and depression. Deborah aims to make the first step easier for anyone feeling unsure about reaching out.

Deborah uses a straightforward, conversational style in sessions. She focuses on helping people name what feels difficult and find practical ways to cope day to day. Conversations often centre on patterns of thinking, how relationships affect mood, and simple strategies to manage tension and sleeplessness.

With ten years of experience, Deborah has worked across a range of concerns including parenting strain, career stress, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with attachment issues, adoption and foster care experiences, chronic illness, and ADHD-related difficulties. Her practice includes work with LGBT issues and intimacy-related worries.

Her approach draws on client-centred listening alongside evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioural ideas, attachment-based thinking and brief psychodynamic reflection. Mindfulness techniques are sometimes used to help with grounding and sleep. Together these tools are shaped to each person’s goals rather than applied the same way to everyone.

Sessions are held from the United Kingdom and are conducted in English. Deborah accepts international clients and uses a subscription system that can be cancelled at any time. To start, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist’s availability.

How Deborah’s approaches translate to online work

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and expectations. Sessions may help when people struggle with trust, abandonment worries or patterns repeating across relationships. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s own experience and priorities, offering a steady, non-judgemental space to talk through what matters now. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) breaks down distressing thoughts and behaviours into small steps to change, which can be useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Deborah treats this as a collaborative process and will help clients choose and adapt methods based on their goals and preferences. Plans are revised as progress is made, so what starts as one approach can be mixed with other techniques if that proves more helpful.

Confirm the exact session formats before booking, as the biography does not list specific online options. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, for example by saving travel time or by allowing shorter check-ins around work breaks. It can also let people join from another location when that helps them focus, or avoid camera use when they prefer a quieter audio session.