Desta "Dee" Davies-Boothe, BACP
Calm-focused counselling combining body and talk work
About Desta
Desta "Dee" Davies-Boothe is a counsellor who blends somatic awareness with practical talking therapies. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, anger and self-esteem struggles. Dee supports those coping with life changes and relationship difficulties in a straightforward, respectful way.
Dee holds a BACP credential, and has three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She draws on Client-Centred and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try different ways of responding.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and existential ideas are also part of her approach when they suit a person’s needs. Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual. Dee aims to tailor conversations and tools to each person’s situation.
That can mean exploring how feelings show up in the body, practising small behavioural experiments, or working on clearer communication skills. She values respect, sensitivity and compassion in every session. Dee helps people set realistic steps and steady goals rather than promising quick fixes.
The work is collaborative, with the person’s preferences guiding the pace and methods used. People who are struggling with issues like abandonment, attachment, body image, caregiving stress, or problems tied to adoption and foster care may also find relevant support.
Dee offers practical ways to manage symptoms and build coping skills while paying attention to how emotional experience is held in the body.
How somatic and talk therapies work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how feelings and stress appear in the body. Online sessions can include simple body awareness and breathing exercises to notice tension and grounding. These practices often help when anxiety or anger feels physical and overwhelming.Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and the person’s own goals. In online meetings this means the counsellor offers a non-judgemental space and follows the person’s pace, helping them make sense of their experience and decide what matters most.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thoughts and behaviour patterns and teaches practical strategies to change them. Over video or phone this can include setting small experiments, tracking thoughts, and trying new ways of responding between sessions.
Finding the right mix of techniques is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to identify what feels most useful, adapting the approach as goals and preferences become clearer.
Online therapy brings flexibility and accessibility with several formats to choose from. Video calls let the counsellor and client see non-verbal cues, phone sessions offer simplicity, and live chat or text messaging suit people who prefer written communication or need brief, frequent contact. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and from different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English