Debbie Griffin, NCPS

Debbie Griffin is a counsellor with 12 years of experience in the United Kingdom and the NCPS credential. She focuses on practical help for day-to-day problems like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and career uncertainty. Her way of working aims to make it easier to talk about difficult feelings and to find clearer next steps.

She creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can sort through what matters most to them. Conversations centre on the client’s priorities and on ideas that can be tried between sessions. Debbie encourages small changes that can build confidence and reduce overwhelm.

Her caseload includes concerns such as relationship strain, coping with life changes, grief, addiction and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people facing compassion fatigue, parenting stress and difficulties linked to ADHD. Debbie attends to the whole person rather than focusing only on symptoms.

Debbie uses a client-centred approach that places the person’s experience at the heart of therapy. She listens closely and helps people find their own answers, while offering guidance when useful. This approach is suited to people who want a collaborative, steady process.

Sessions can include practical coaching elements for career questions, coping strategies for anxiety, and conversations about identity and sexuality. Debbie works with each person to set realistic goals and to track progress over time. Her aim is to help people feel more capable and more hopeful about next steps.

Client-centred care and online access

Client-centred therapy focuses on the person rather than on labels. The counsellor listens closely and reflects back what the client says, helping them to find their own solutions and to build confidence. This approach is useful for problems like anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship stress and coping with life changes.

In practice the work is collaborative. The therapist and client discuss goals and test small changes together. If practical tools or coaching techniques are useful, these are introduced alongside open listening. Finding the right mix of talking and doing is part of the process and will be shaped by the client’s needs and preferences.

Online sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is good for a conversational feel and seeing non-verbal cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging lets someone reflect between replies. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, family and daily life.