Debra "Debs" Barritt, BACP
Debra "Debs" Barritt is a counsellor with 15 years' experience.
- Stress & Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- +13 more
About Debra
Debra "Debs" Barritt is a counsellor with 15 years' experience. She works from a community-minded, person-centred background and aims to help people who are carrying heavy feelings such as grief, depression and anxiety. Debs grew up with difficult early experiences and chose a helping path in response.
She studied youth work part-time at Brunel University and began counselling in a hospice bereavement service. That start shaped how she supports people through loss and serious life changes.
Background and approach
Her work is straightforward and practical. Sessions focus on listening, making sense of painful memories, and finding ways to cope day to day. Debs uses gentle, person-led conversation alongside techniques from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Internal Family Systems when they fit the person's needs.
Clients often come with issues such as stress, relationship strain, low self-esteem, addiction, trauma, parenting pressures, or career worries. She also offers support for people facing long-term health conditions, ageing concerns, and neurodiversity-related challenges such as autism and attention differences. Debs combines warmth with steady experience.
She draws on years of bereavement work and life experience as a mother and grandmother to build connection. Practical steps and a calm presence are central to how she helps people find a way forward.
If someone wants to explore whether Debs might be a good fit, they can start the platform matching process and book a session to see how the approach feels in practice.
Registration
| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| BACP | 57312 | January 2027 |
Registration details are as listed on the counsellor's public profile. You can check any number with the registering body.
Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
Costs are shown on the partner platform before you commit. If cost is a concern, ask about reduced-fee options.
Focus areas and approaches
What Debra works with
Everything Debra lists, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Debra lists
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Online support
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. It is useful for tackling anxiety, depression and stressed patterns by trying small, practical changes in thinking and behaviour.
Internal Family Systems helps people notice different parts of themselves and how those parts influence feelings and reactions. It can be helpful for trauma, shame, self-esteem and repeated relationship struggles.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about needs, goals and preferences, and together they will try methods that suit the individual's situation. That collaborative process means the plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can be used for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and day-to-day life while still working with registered or accredited professionals and experienced therapists.
Frequently asked
What concerns does Debs commonly help with?
She helps people dealing with grief, depression and anxiety as well as stress, relationship issues, addiction, trauma, self-esteem and parenting pressures.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and person-centred with practical conversation. She listens closely and uses CBT and Internal Family Systems tools when they suit the person's goals.
What experience does she bring to sessions?
Debs has 15 years of counselling experience, including work in a hospice bereavement service and running a independent practice.
Where is Debs based and what are her credentials?
She is located in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration as supplied in her profile.
Which languages are supported for therapy?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with Debs?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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