Niamh Duffy, BACP

Niamh Duffy is a qualified integrative counsellor and psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom with 9 years of clinical experience. She supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, the impacts of trauma and abuse, grief, and struggles with self-esteem and low mood. Her practice blends a person-centred foundation with practical techniques to help clients move toward greater self-understanding, emotional regulation, and personal growth.

Known for treating others with respect, sensitivity, and compassion, she takes a gentle, client-led approach that follows each person’s pace while offering guidance when needed. Niamh works with a wide range of concerns including attachment and abandonment issues, communication problems, separation and divorce, domestic violence, loneliness and isolation, obsessive and compulsive patterns, panic attacks, self-harm, and women's issues. Her integrative style draws on evidence-informed methods to tailor support to individual needs and goals.

Niamh holds BACP accreditation - a professional membership with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and she welcomes clients seeking thoughtful, empathetic care. She encourages those who find the first step daunting to consider therapy as a practical step toward change, offering steady support throughout the process.

Therapeutic Approaches Delivered Online

Client-Centered Therapy places the client at the heart of the work, emphasizing empathy, active listening, and respect for each person’s own experience; it is well suited to those seeking a supportive space to explore feelings, build self-esteem, or work through relationship and attachment concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and patterns and learning practical strategies to manage anxiety, panic, intrusive thoughts, or low mood; it is often used when clients want structured tools to reduce symptoms and change behaviours.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people understand and reshape emotional responses within relationships, supporting those coping with communication problems, separation, or deeper attachment wounds. Niamh draws on these approaches to tailor sessions to each person’s needs, combining empathic listening with practical interventions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and will be decided collaboratively. She works with clients to clarify goals, assess what resonates, and adjust methods as therapy progresses so the plan fits the client’s preferences and challenges.

Online therapy offers flexible access to licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into daily life, maintain continuity during transitions, and choose the mode of communication that feels most comfortable for each session.