Dea Richardson, NCPS
8 years in practice
Dea Richardson is a counsellor with eight years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom.
License and registration
- NCPS
- NCS18-06475 · expires April 2026
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Dea
Dea Richardson is a counsellor with eight years of professional experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction and major life changes. Dea uses a calm, straightforward style that helps people feel heard and understood from the first session.
She believes each person is the expert on their own life. Dea draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people understand emotional patterns that keep causing pain.
Background and approach
She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centred methods to build clearer goals and practical steps forward. In sessions she listens for what matters most to the individual and then helps them try small changes. That might include learning new ways to respond to stress, building skills to manage mood swings, or practising different ways to talk about painful experiences.
She aims for short, clear guidance and supportive reflection. Dea supports people dealing with relationship and family tensions, grief, body image and identity concerns, and the long-term impacts of trauma. She also helps those managing workplace stress, career crossroads, or the strain of caregiving.
Sessions are offered in English and are available to people in the UK and internationally. Practical information about formats, cost and how to begin is available on the profile and during the initial matching process.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Dea lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Dea names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapeutic approaches translate to online therapy
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and change emotional patterns that cause pain in relationships and personal life. Online sessions use conversation and focused exercises to help identify unmet needs and try different ways of responding.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) supports people to accept difficult feelings while committing to values-based steps. In remote sessions the counsellor guides small experiments and practical tasks that can be tried between meetings to build more flexibility and purpose.
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening closely and offering empathy so clients feel understood. This approach helps people explore priorities at their own pace and make decisions that fit their life.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adapt methods over time. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so sessions remain relevant and practical.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging - offer flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits short check-ins or ongoing support. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and travel while keeping continuity of care.
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Questions people ask
What concerns can Dea help with?
She supports people with anxiety, depression, bipolar features, addiction, eating and body image struggles, grief, anger and stress. She also works with issues like abandonment, attachment challenges, relationship and family tensions, and career-related strain.
How would she approach therapy?
Dea combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centred methods. She focuses on understanding emotional patterns, setting meaningful goals, and practising small changes between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She has eight years of professional experience supporting people through trauma, complex loss and addictions. Her work emphasises practical steps and emotional understanding.
Where is she based and what credentials does she hold?
She practises from the United Kingdom and holds the NCPS credential as listed in her profile.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and the practice accepts clients internationally.
What session formats are available?
Therapy can be delivered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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