Debra "Debs" Barritt
Experienced counsellor focused on grief and life changes
About Debra
Debra "Debs" Barritt has worked in counselling for 15 years and holds BACP accreditation. She brings a long history of supporting people through loss, life transitions and emotional pain. Debs draws on both personal-practice experience and years working in bereavement services in healthcare settings.
She describes her work as rooted in human connection and practical care. Debs began training in person-centred counselling and later broadened her approach to include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Internal Family Systems.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens first, then helps people notice patterns that make life harder. She uses plain language and simple tools so that things feel doable between meetings. Her background includes time supporting people at the end of life, which shaped how she works with grief and loss.
She also brings experience with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship concerns. Debs aims to help people find ways to carry painful memories while still moving forward with their lives. People meet Debs for help with low self-esteem, parenting strain, addiction concerns, anger and coping with big life changes.
She also supports those managing long-term illness, caregiving stress, body image worries and neurodiversity-related challenges such as autism and Asperger syndrome. Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Debs works in a collaborative way, helping each person choose practical steps and small changes that fit their day-to-day life.
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Sessions & fees
How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and creating a respectful space where people feel heard. It helps when someone needs acceptance, empathy and support to find their own answers rather than being directed.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. It uses straightforward exercises to help people manage anxiety, depression or unhelpful habits by practising new ways of thinking and acting.
Internal Family Systems offers a way to understand different parts of oneself and how they influence feelings and behaviour. It can be useful for trauma, attachment issues and patterns that keep repeating.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, then try methods that fit each person. Sessions are collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging make it easier to fit counselling into a busy life. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversation, phone works if bandwidth is limited, chat can suit short check-ins and messaging lets people reflect in writing. These options offer flexibility and help people access support from different places and at different times.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
