Deborah Gray, BACP

Deborah Gray is a BACP counsellor with ten years' experience working with adults. She sees people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, grief and family concerns. She also offers help for intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, anger and coping with big life changes.

Deborah draws on several approaches when she meets someone. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) alongside attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas. Sessions are conversational and practical. She helps people notice patterns, try small changes and work out what matters to them.

Clients often come with parenting pressures, caregiving stress or problems linked to past trauma and abuse. Deborah will talk through how those experiences affect day-to-day life and relationships. She also supports people dealing with abandonment worries, codependency and communication problems.

Her background includes work with people facing mood and motivation issues, and complex presentations such as co-morbidity, personality-related concerns, DMDD and challenges connected to ageing. She has worked with survivors of physical and sexual harm and with people affected by disaster-related events.

Deborah keeps sessions focused and interactive. She encourages practical steps between meetings, such as new routines for sleep or experiments in communication. People who want a straightforward, adult-centred approach to home and relationship stresses may find her style helpful.

Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions