Patience Destiny, BACP

Patience Destiny is a BACP counsellor with thirteen years of experience helping people cope with life’s hard moments. She works with individuals facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, relationship and intimacy concerns, eating issues, addictions, career strain and the impact of long-term illness. She also supports people dealing with parenting pressures, compassion fatigue and major life changes. Her style is warm and interactive, and she aims to make talking feel straightforward and down to earth. Sessions focus on what matters to the person in front of her, and she adapts the work to each person’s needs. That might mean practical exercises, reflective conversation, or a mix of approaches tailored to the situation. Patience uses a variety of methods including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Client-Centred work, Mindfulness and Narrative approaches. She draws on these to help people notice patterns, weigh options, and try small changes that make daily life easier. Her experience includes supporting people with attachment and family of origin issues, adoption and foster care concerns, body image and eating-related problems, ageing and caregiver stress, and the emotional effects of cancer and bereavement. She also helps those managing anger, emptiness, commitment worries and communication problems. People can expect a respectful, thoughtful conversation where their perspective guides the pace and focus of therapy. Patience invites creativity and everyday humour into the work when it feels helpful, and she works collaboratively to shape a plan that reflects each person’s goals.

How Patience’s approaches translate to online therapy

Patience commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values rather than getting stuck. CBT looks at unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns and uses practical exercises to try different ways of responding.

She also uses Client-Centred principles, which means sessions centre on the person’s experience, with the counsellor offering empathic listening and gentle reflection. These approaches can help with anxiety, low mood, grief, relationship stress and coping with long-term illness by combining reflection with doable steps.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Patience will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. The choice is collaborative and may change as therapy progresses.

The original biography does not specify session formats, so please confirm available online options before booking. Many people choose online work because it can fit more easily around work, caregiving or travel; it may make it simpler to have shorter check-ins, avoid commuting and maintain continuity when life is busy. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises, mindfulness practices and behavioural tasks to suit the online setting without changing the core aims of therapy.