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Denis Bruce, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 25 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseAnger managementSelf esteem
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Denis Bruce welcomes people who feel overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure of their next steps. He keeps things straightforward and calm, helping clients talk through anxiety, stress, grief, relationship strains, addiction concerns, sleep problems, and career pressure. Denis writes plainly about the immediate issues so parents and busy people can read quickly and decide if he might be the right fit.
He uses a collaborative style that centres the person in the room.
Background and approach
Sessions can be structured and goal-focused or more reflective, depending on what someone needs that week. Denis draws on approaches such as attachment-based work, cognitive behavioural techniques, existential ideas, and EMDR to shape sessions around the client's goals and pace. With 25 years of experience he brings long-standing practice to complex problems like trauma, compassion fatigue, chronic illness, and codependency.
He also supports people facing abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment difficulties, and relationship commitment concerns. Denis aims to help people build clearer routines, manage strong emotions, and repair important connections. Practical skills and talking things through are both part of the work.
He helps people notice patterns, try new coping strategies, and plan small changes that feel doable. Over time clients learn ways to ease anger, reduce anxiety, and sleep better. Denis works with adults across many life stages and offers sessions online in English.
He combines steady listening with practical steps so people leave sessions with something they can use between meetings.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships. It helps people understand how early bonds affect trust, intimacy and reactions in current relationships, which can ease fears around closeness and abandonment.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviours keep problems going. It offers simple, practical tools to reduce anxiety, improve sleep and change unhelpful routines through short exercises and experiments.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used for trauma and strong distress. It involves guided processing to reduce the intensity of upsetting memories so they feel less overwhelming in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Denis will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs and comfort level. He often combines elements from different approaches and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes regular work easier to maintain. Video calls let therapists and clients use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone sessions can be a simpler option with less bandwidth, and live chat or messaging is useful for brief check-ins or when typing is easier. These formats help people fit therapy around work, childcare and other commitments while keeping momentum between meetings.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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