Despina Andreou , BACP

Despina Andreou is a United Kingdom-based therapist who brings three years of focused experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and loss. She listens with empathy and aims to help clients understand patterns that contribute to emotional pain while offering practical tools for coping and change. Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns, including grief, addictions, intimacy-related issues, anger, low self-esteem, career stress, depression, and life transitions, as well as attachment and communication problems often rooted in family of origin dynamics.

Despina integrates evidence-informed methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness practices, and Trauma-Focused work to tailor sessions to each person’s needs. She communicates fluently in English and Greek, and brings a respectful, nonjudgmental style to therapeutic conversations. Despina holds BACP, which indicates professional membership in the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy and reflects a commitment to established practice standards.

She accepts international clients, though she is not currently accepting clients. Prospective clients can learn about her approaches and decide whether her areas of focus align with their goals before seeking a match elsewhere.

Therapeutic Approaches Adapted for Online Care

Despina draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build more effective coping strategies. CBT is structured and goal-oriented, often useful for anxiety, depression, panic and phobias.

She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness - tools that support people dealing with intense emotions, relationship challenges, and patterns of impulsive behavior.

When trauma is central to a person’s experience, Trauma-Focused Therapy methods guide careful processing of difficult memories and responses while pacing work to match the client’s readiness. This approach aims to reduce the ways past events continue to affect daily life without overwhelming the individual.

Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. Despina collaborates with each person to explore which methods fit their goals, preferences and current needs, adjusting techniques over time as progress unfolds.

Online therapy with Despina is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, access support from different locations, and continue consistent care even when in-person meetings are not possible. Licensed professionals and therapists can use these formats effectively to deliver meaningful therapeutic progress.