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Dea Richardson, NCPS
- Credentials
- NCPS
- Experience
- 8 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with AddictionsTrauma and abuseEating disordersSelf esteemCoping with life changes
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Dea Richardson is a counsellor with eight years' experience working in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS, which is shown as a professional credential. Dea focuses on helping people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar difficulties, addictions and eating concerns.
She also supports those facing relationship strain, grief, career pressures and challenges linked to ADHD and self-esteem. Her approach values the person’s own knowledge of their life. Dea encourages clients to name what matters most and build practical steps towards it.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be straightforward and paced to each person's needs. She offers a calm, attentive presence while helping clients try new ways of handling difficult feelings and thoughts. Dea draws on several evidence-informed approaches to tailor work to the individual.
She uses techniques that help people notice thoughts, practice new behaviours and strengthen emotional awareness. Where trauma is part of the story, she works carefully to reduce overwhelm and increase a sense of safety in sessions. She also pays attention to relationship patterns and family-related stresses, helping people untangle communication problems, codependency or commitment fears.
Dea supports practical problem solving for life transitions such as separation, adoption or caregiving strain. People meet with her for short-term focused work or for longer-term support depending on their goals. Sessions can combine reflective conversation with active skills practice so clients leave with tools they can use between meetings.
How different approaches shape online work
Dea uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy as core tools. ACT helps people clarify values and take small steps towards a life that matters to them, often useful for anxiety, depression and motivation problems. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and practising alternative behaviours to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning.She adapts the work to each person in a collaborative way. During early sessions she and the client agree goals and try an approach for a few meetings. If something fits well they continue, and if not they adjust methods together to better meet the client's needs and preferences.
Online therapy with Dea is offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is good for fuller conversation and visual connection, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can suit shorter check-ins or when a quieter format is preferred. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving or travel while still accessing consistent support.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
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