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David Mayes, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 8 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with AddictionsRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseGriefIntimacy-related issues
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David Mayes is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with eight years of experience. He works with people facing issues such as depression, anxiety, addictions and grief. David is approachable and aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable for anyone who is worried or unsure.
He uses a humanistic, client-centred way of working that focuses on the person's own goals. Sessions are conversational and guided by what matters most to the individual.
Background and approach
He creates a calm, polite space where people can speak openly and begin to map out change. David has supported people with relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, and sexual health questions including kink and alternative sex culture. He also helps with parenting and family-related stress, career worries, low self-esteem and coping with life changes.
Additional focus areas include ADHD, attachment and abandonment issues, body image and long-term illness or caregiving strain. His background includes work in NHS settings, IAPT services and forensic environments such as prison, alongside online and telephone counselling. He has experience with both domestic and international enquiries and speaks English.
David aims to balance direct listening with practical steps so conversations lead to real, usable changes. People who come to him often want a warm, down-to-earth counsellor who will listen without judgement and work alongside them. He encourages clients to set the pace, and to build clearer ways of coping and relating as therapy progresses.
How a client-centred approach works online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and helping the person set their own goals. The counsellor reflects back what is said and helps the client make sense of their feelings, which can help with anxiety, depression, relationship concerns and grief.David approaches online work in the same human-centred way he uses in person. He will discuss ways of working with each person and together decide which approach feels most helpful. Finding the right fit is a collaborative process and he adapts to the client's needs and preferences as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit step-by-step reflection and quick support between longer sessions, and all formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or travel commitments.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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