Deena Ramkhelawon, BACP

Deena Ramkhelawon is a counsellor with 17 years of practice in the United Kingdom. She works with people facing common life stresses as well as longer-standing mood and anxiety difficulties. Deena aims to create a calm, warm space where people can talk about what is worrying them and find practical ways forward.

She uses a range of approaches to suit different needs, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based ideas. Sessions focus on understanding how thoughts, feelings and relationships affect day-to-day life. Deena helps people build clarity, confidence and coping skills so they can manage distressing symptoms and move on from painful experiences.

Parents and carers will find support for stress, family concerns and the pressures of caregiving, including compassion fatigue and caregiver stress. She also works with people dealing with OCD, panic, phobias, chronic illness, relationship strain, separation and career worries. Practical tools, psychoeducation and gradual exposure work are used where appropriate.

Deena aims to work at the client’s pace and to agree a personalised plan. She encourages collaboration so people understand each step of the work. The focus is on making sessions useful in everyday life and on developing strategies that can be used between meetings.

Deena is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. Sessions are provided in English and are based in the United Kingdom.

How therapeutic approaches work in online counselling

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and life changes by focusing on small practical steps and acceptance rather than fighting feelings.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns with others. This approach can help people understand recurring difficulties in family or close relationships and build different ways of relating over time.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours to find clear techniques that reduce distress. CBT is often used for panic, phobias, obsessive-compulsive difficulties and everyday anxiety by teaching coping skills and graded exposure tasks.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs and adjust the plan as progress is made. This helps ensure the work feels relevant and manageable.

If you are considering online sessions, please confirm the specific session formats before booking as these are set by the therapist. Online work can make it easier to fit counselling around work and family life, allow shorter check-ins when needed and remove travel time. It also lets people continue therapy when day-to-day demands make in-person appointments harder to arrange.