Niamh Duffy, BACP
9 years in practice
Niamh Duffy is a counsellor who focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety and relationship problems.
License and registration
- BACP
- 406852
- BACP
- 406852 · expires January 2027
- Years in practice
- 9
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Niamh
Niamh Duffy is a counsellor who focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety and relationship problems. She works with people facing trauma, abuse, grief and low self-esteem. Her style is calm and respectful and she aims to make the first steps into therapy feel less daunting.
Niamh follows a person-centred way of working. That means she listens first and takes her lead from the client. She offers gentle guidance and practical tools when they are wanted, rather than telling people what to do.
Background and approach
Over nine years she has supported people through separation, attachment issues and feelings of emptiness. She also helps with panic, obsessive thoughts, social anxiety and struggles around self-harm and shame. Sessions include space to talk through painful memories and to build new ways of coping day to day.
Niamh draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at how feelings and patterns shape relationships and inner life. She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and simple exercises to change it. Mindfulness techniques are offered to calm the body and reduce reactivity in stressful moments.
She holds BACP, which indicates membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Services are offered from the United Kingdom and sessions are available in English. Niamh works collaboratively to set goals, pacing the work to suit each person’s needs.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Niamh lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Niamh names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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Online support
How therapeutic approaches work online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at how emotions shape relationships and personal patterns. Online sessions can help people notice and name feelings, and practise new ways of responding in relationships or to inner distress.Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead. In a remote session the counsellor offers warmth, acceptance and reflective listening to help people feel heard and make their own changes.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying small exercises to shift them. It works well online because short worksheets and behavioural experiments can be set between sessions and reviewed remotely.
Finding the right method is a collaborative process. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs and suggest starting points. Together they will check in regularly and adjust the approach as the work unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat suits quick check-ins or people who prefer not to use a camera. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, and to access care from the United Kingdom or abroad.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems can be discussed in sessions?
Clients often bring stress, anxiety, relationship trouble, trauma and grief. Additional concerns include self-esteem, panic, obsessive thoughts, loneliness and women's issues.
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
The work is primarily person-centred with gentle guidance. Techniques from Emotionally-Focused Therapy, CBT and mindfulness are used where helpful.
What level of experience does the counsellor have?
The counsellor has nine years of practice supporting people with a broad range of emotional and relationship issues.
What credentials and location are recorded?
Membership is listed as BACP, which is the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Services are provided in the United Kingdom.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and the counsellor accepts international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Therapy can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging according to preference.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
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