Debbie Priest

Please contact me to check on my availability, as I hope to find a day and time that suits us both. 

I currently offer face to face counselling, on Thursdays and Fridays. I can also offer online and telephone counselling at other times.

If you are looking at this page you might be feeling a bit anxious about diving into the unknown. However, help with a current problem could be just a phone call away. 

I've been a counsellor for many years and in that time I've worked for a number of different organisations alongside my private practice, including the NHS and charitable organisations.

I enjoy supporting people to overcome the problems in their lives in order for them to reach their full potential. Currently I’m training for the doctorate in counselling psychology, which means that I work in a way that uses up to date research and knowledge to help you understand yourself more fully.

Additionally, I hold a qualification in occupational psychology which informs my practice to support you with any work-based difficulties.

I have also experienced many difficulties in my own life and I have a particular interest in supporting people to recover emotionally from narcissistic relationships both in their personal lives and in the work place.

I work intuitively and empathically, mostly use a humanistic approach. This puts you at the centre of the therapy and I will work collaboratively with you to resolve the problems that bring you here. However, I also have an eye to the past, bringing in a psychodynamic perspective if I feel that this will be helpful for your understanding of yourself. I sometimes offer to bring in CBT, or a creative activity if there is something specific that comes to light during our work together and if you are open to this type of approach.

Trauma recovery is an area I have a particular interest in, providing empathic support if you feel that you need to disclose difficult experiences from the past that are preventing you from moving on in your life. 

Contact me for a free initial telephone discussion of up to 20 minutes, so that we can talk through how I might be able to support you with the current difficulties that life is throwing at you.