Dilnia Horton, BACP
13 years in practice
Dilnia Horton is a counsellor who helps people dealing with relationship struggles, family conflict, eating concerns and parenting strain.
License and registration
- BACP
- 337697 · expires October 2026
- Years in practice
- 13
- Languages
- English, Kurdish
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Dilnia
Dilnia Horton is a counsellor who helps people dealing with relationship struggles, family conflict, eating concerns and parenting strain. She speaks English and Kurdish and brings thirteen years of practice in the United Kingdom. She aims to make the first step feel manageable and supports people through the change process.
Her approach blends practical and emotion-focused work. She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at patterns in feeling and connection. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and make small changes.
Background and approach
Dilnia makes space for difficult feelings and for talking through how behaviour affects everyday life. Sessions focus on what is happening now and on small, doable steps between meetings. She works with issues like self-esteem, body image and codependency by naming patterns and testing new ways of relating.
She also has experience with adoption and foster care, attachment questions, abandonment worries and the stresses caregivers face. Relationship themes such as communication, commitment and separation are part of her work. She regularly supports people facing blended family issues and ageing or geriatric concerns.
Sessions are offered in several formats to fit different needs. The aim is steady progress, kept simple and practical, with the therapist and client deciding the pace together.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Dilnia lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Dilnia names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
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Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at how emotions shape close relationships. It helps people notice interaction patterns and learn new ways of connecting that reduce tension and blame.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour. It teaches practical strategies to challenge unhelpful thoughts and to build more helpful habits in daily life.
Dilnia treats finding the right approach as a joint process. She will work with each person to decide which methods suit their needs and goals. Together they review what is working and adjust the plan as therapy continues.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be lower bandwidth, and text or chat can suit quick check-ins or times when typing feels easier. This range helps people fit therapy around work, family life and varying energy levels, while keeping continuity between meetings.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Dilnia commonly help with?
She works with relationship difficulties, family conflict, eating concerns, parenting strain and low self-esteem, along with related issues like body image, codependency and communication problems.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is practical and emotion-focused, combining Emotionally-Focused Therapy and CBT with mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas to understand feelings and change patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has thirteen years of professional experience working with a range of relationship and family related concerns in the United Kingdom.
What credentials and location are listed?
Dilnia holds BACP credentialing and practises in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Kurdish.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different preferences and schedules.
How are costs and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
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