Denise Richards, BACP

Denise Richards offers calm, direct support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or life changes. She helps clients untangle intense emotions and make practical sense of difficult situations. Denise writes plainly and listens closely so people feel heard and understood from the first session.

Denise uses a mix of counselling styles to meet each person’s needs. She draws on client-centred ideas to follow what matters to the client and uses cognitive behavioural techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behaviour. She also looks at past patterns through psychodynamic ideas and keeps sessions focused with solution-focused work when people want practical steps.

Her background includes a Post-Graduate Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling and earlier diplomas and certificates in the same approach. She is a BACP registered member, which is recorded as BACP in her credentials. Over six years she has worked in services supporting survivors of abuse, trafficked women, young people in schools, and community counselling services.

In sessions Denise may help people make sense of trauma, domestic abuse, relationship difficulties, parenting strain, eating concerns, or career stress. She aims to uncover patterns that keep problems repeating and to find small, manageable changes clients can try between sessions.

To begin, clients use the site's Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire. Scheduling is then arranged according to the therapist's availability and the subscription model used for sessions.

How her approaches work in online therapy

Denise combines client-centred work with cognitive behavioural techniques to give a clear, collaborative way of working. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the client feels understood and can explore what matters most. Cognitive behavioural therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Denise will discuss goals and preferences together and adjust methods as the relationship develops. That means sessions can shift between exploring past patterns, building coping skills, or setting small, achievable tasks depending on what helps most.

Session formats are not specified in the biographical information, so please confirm the available options when booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel, and allow shorter check-ins when time is limited. A collaborative discussion at the first appointment will clarify which way of working and which session arrangements suit each person's life and needs.