Tracey Lynne Desjardins , NCPS

Tracey Lynne Desjardins is an Emotional Therapeutic Counsellor and Highly Sensitive Personality coach who blends formal training with wide-ranging life experience to support people facing emotional challenges. Originally from Canada and now based in the United Kingdom, she retrained as a Therapeutic Counsellor in 2020 and brings a background of work in the Criminal Justice sector, where she focused on relationship difficulties, addiction, and sexualised behaviours. Tracey also holds the NCPS credential, a professional counselling qualification that reflects her clinical training and ongoing development.

Her practice integrates an understanding of human behaviour with the Inner Child model to help clients recognise and work through emotional blocks that can limit wellbeing and personal goals. Tracey has a particular interest in supporting people affected by domestic abuse, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, trauma, and those with a highly sensitive personality or empathic traits. She volunteers with Cruse Bereavement Services, which informs her compassionate approach to grief and loss work.

Tracey offers emotional therapeutic counselling aimed at helping people uncover where unhelpful patterns began and how those patterns influence present-day decisions and relationships. Her work often addresses addiction, relationship and family issues, bereavement, parenting, stress, and a range of mood and trauma-related concerns, using gentle techniques to guide clients through change and toward greater emotional resilience.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Tracey practices client-centered therapy, which focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client leads the conversation and the therapist offers empathy and support to help the person explore their own solutions. This approach is useful for people working through self-esteem, life changes, and relationship concerns.

She also uses emotionally-focused therapy - EFT - to help individuals and couples identify and transform unhelpful emotional patterns and to strengthen attachment and connection. EFT is particularly helpful for relationship difficulties and intimacy-related issues.

Mindfulness therapy is incorporated to help clients develop present-moment awareness and gentle self-regulation skills, which can reduce stress, anxiety, and reactivity and support coping with ongoing challenges.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Tracey works collaboratively with each client to understand needs, goals, and preferences, and together they tailor methods and pacing to fit the individual situation.

Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility, with sessions available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives, to access support from different locations, and to choose the communication style that feels most comfortable for each person.