Debra "Debs" Barritt, BACP
Debra "Debs" Barritt is a counsellor with 15 years' experience who focuses on helping people manage life's harder moments.
About Debra
Debra "Debs" Barritt is a counsellor with 15 years' experience who focuses on helping people manage life's harder moments. She works from a place shaped by her own history and long practical experience in bereavement care. Debs holds BACP registration and combines warmth with straightforward support.
Her early work began in bereavement services at St Michael's Hospice, where she sat with people at the end of life and offered calm presence.
Background and approach
That time taught her the value of listening, small acts of comfort, and steady companionship during grief. She keeps those lessons at the heart of her counselling. In practice she uses person-centred ways of working alongside cognitive behavioural ideas and Internal Family Systems.
That means sessions often begin with the client's immediate concerns and move on to simple, practical steps to change thoughts or behaviours that are getting in the way. She also helps people notice inner parts that carry pain and find gentler ways to relate to them.
Debs offers help for a wide range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy worries, addiction and trauma and abuse. She also supports those facing life changes such as divorce, caregiving strain, chronic illness, or career shifts. Her approach is warm, hopeful and down-to-earth.
People who prefer a calm, listening therapist who suggests practical tools tend to fit well with her style. She encourages gradual progress, clear goals, and practical coping strategies while treating each person as an individual.
Details from the counsellor's public professional profile · registration number listed
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| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| BACP | 57312 | January 2027 |
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Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
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Focus areas and approaches
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Ways of working Debra names
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How Debs blends talking therapies for online work
Debs uses client-centred work to create a safe, respectful space where the client's experience comes first. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting back what is said, and helping people feel heard before moving on to change.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. CBT offers practical steps such as simple exercises and experiments to reduce anxiety, low mood, or unhelpful habits.
Internal Family Systems is another influence, helping people notice different inner parts that hold pain or worry. Together with the client, Debs helps those parts be understood and treated more kindly so they stop driving unhelpful responses.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and tailor the approach over time. Clients are invited to feed back so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy lets work continue without travel and with more scheduling flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging offer ongoing check-ins and written reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family or mobility needs.
Frequently asked
What issues does she help with?
Debs works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, trauma and abuse, ADHD and parenting challenges.
What is her general therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and person-centred with practical elements. Sessions combine listening with simple strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours.
How much experience does she have?
She has 15 years of counselling experience, including work in bereavement services at St Michael's Hospice and running independent practice.
What professional credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and works from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as options for online work.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time; exact cost varies with location and the therapist's availability.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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