Dagmar Ball , BACP

Dagmar Ball is a person-centered, humanistic therapist based in the United Kingdom with over seven years of clinical experience. She works with young people and adults from age 11 onwards, supporting those facing a wide range of difficulties including depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, ADHD and autism, low mood, personality disorder, and suicidal ideation. She has also supported people who have experienced physical trauma or abuse, including physical, sexual, financial, domestic violence, and childhood abuse.

Her therapeutic style is warm, approachable, and flexible, blending respectful curiosity with practical creativity to tailor sessions to each person’s needs. She emphasises sensitivity and compassion while also offering gentle challenges to unhelpful thought patterns. Dagmar believes clients often have the answers within themselves and aims to provide a supportive guiding presence so clients can gradually remove their emotional barriers and begin to heal from the inside out.

Dagmar holds the BACP credential, a professional counselling membership that reflects recognised standards for practitioners. She is accepting new clients, including international clients, and offers therapy in English. Her practice covers trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy and relationship concerns, addiction and compulsive behaviours, parenting and blended family issues, chronic illness and caregiving stress, and other life changes where people seek more clarity, resilience, and emotional wellbeing.

Client-centered and trauma-informed approaches for online therapy

Dagmar works from a client-centered framework that prioritises the individual’s experience - the therapist listens with empathy, follows the client’s pace, and creates a supportive space where people can explore feelings and make meaningful changes. This approach is helpful for issues such as low mood, anxiety, relationship concerns, and identity-related challenges.

She also draws on EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing - to help people process traumatic memories. EMDR uses focused attention and guided processing to reduce the intensity of distressing memories, and it can be useful for clients who have experienced abuse, accidents, or other traumatic events.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Dagmar will work with each person to identify their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, adapting techniques over time so therapy reflects the client’s changing needs.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging - making it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, to access support from different locations, and to choose the format that feels most comfortable. Licensed professionals can provide structured, goal-focused work through these options while tailoring the pace and style to each client.