Tracey Lynne Desjardins, NCPS
Practical emotional counselling with somatic awareness
About Tracey
Tracey Lynne Desjardins works with adults who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, grief, relationship strain, addiction or life changes. She is based in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English to people in the UK and internationally. Tracey uses a practical, down-to-earth style so people can make steady progress from the first few sessions.
Tracey retrained as a therapeutic counsellor in 2020 and holds NCPS. She previously worked in the criminal justice sector, where she worked with people around relationship difficulties, addiction and sexualised behaviours.
Background and approach
That background informs her plainspoken approach to emotional work. Her practice draws on somatic ideas alongside client-centred and emotionally-focused work. This means sessions look at bodily responses as well as thoughts and feelings.
Tracey uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques to help people notice patterns and try small, doable changes. Tracey also volunteers with Cruse Bereavement Services and has developed experience supporting people through loss. She often helps clients identify early life experiences - sometimes called the inner child - to see how old coping habits still shape present reactions.
Sessions typically involve talking, learning simple body-based exercises, and trying new ways of communicating or setting boundaries. Tracey aims to make therapy relatable and practical, so people can apply what they learn between sessions. Her focus areas include stress, depression, bipolar, ADHD, trauma, parenting concerns, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, self-esteem, career and compassion fatigue.
She works with single adults and individuals, offering online and remote formats to fit different lives.
Therapeutic approaches online and what they look like
Tracey blends somatic ideas with client-centred and emotionally-focused work to support emotional healing. Somatic-informed work invites people to notice bodily sensations and small physical cues that accompany emotions, which can help with anxiety, trauma and stress responses. Client-centred therapy emphasises being heard without judgement and follows the client’s pace to build understanding and self-trust. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at how patterns of emotional interaction shape relationships and personal coping, which can help with intimacy and communication issues.Deciding which approach to use is a shared process. Tracey will talk with each person about their goals, what feels most useful, and then try approaches together. That collaborative way means methods can be adjusted as needs change rather than fixed from the start.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, allow people to take part from familiar places, and support steady progress over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English