Niamh Duffy, BACP

Niamh Duffy offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain or low self-esteem. She meets individuals in a non-judgemental way and aims to make first steps feel manageable. Her approach is gentle and led by the client, with practical ways to cope added when helpful.

Niamh has nine years of experience working with people facing trauma and abuse, grief, panic attacks, obsessive thoughts and feelings of emptiness or isolation. She also focuses on attachment and abandonment issues, communication problems, divorce and separation, domestic violence, guilt and shame, self-harm, self-love and women's issues.

Her practice draws on client-centred work, which means the person guides the process while she listens and reflects. She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy informs her way of looking at relationship patterns and deep emotional responses.

Mindfulness ideas are used to help people stay grounded in the moment and reduce rumination. Motivational Interviewing can be brought in to support change when someone feels stuck or unsure about next steps. These tools are woven together to suit each person rather than imposed as a rigid programme.

Niamh is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She works with English-speaking clients in the United Kingdom and accepts international clients. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.

How Niamh blends talking therapies online

Niamh commonly uses client-centred work which means the person sets the agenda while she listens and reflects back what matters most. This approach helps people feel heard and understood before moving on to practical steps.

She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy or CBT to identify thought patterns and test new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT can be useful for anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive thoughts and low mood because it breaks problems into manageable parts.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy is used to look at deeper emotional responses and relationship patterns that keep people stuck. It helps people notice how emotions affect behaviour and develop different ways of connecting with themselves and others.

Choosing an approach is collaborative. Niamh will talk through options and adapt methods to fit a person's goals, pace and comfort level. That way the work evolves as needs change rather than following a fixed path.

Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text messaging to make therapy easier to fit into daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a shorter check-in and messaging suits ongoing reflection between appointments. These options provide flexibility and help people keep therapy going around work, family and travel.