Deborah Mantuano, BACP

Deborah uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common way she works is by helping people identify unhelpful thinking and testing alternative thoughts and behaviours in day-to-day life; this helps when depression or anxiety make everything feel heavy and stuck. She also emphasises building strengths and small achievable goals to boost confidence and motivation, useful for low mood, grief or when facing big life changes.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will review what you want to achieve, try methods that fit your situation and adjust the work as you go. This collaborative way helps match methods to your needs rather than imposing one fixed model.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging can help people keep a steady connection between appointments. These formats make therapy more flexible for people juggling work, caregiving or travel.