- Years in practice
- 13
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Kurdish
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Eating disorders
About Dilnia
Dilnia Horton is a counsellor who focuses on relationship strain, parenting concerns and issues tied to self-esteem and eating. She speaks English and Kurdish and works from the United Kingdom. Her approach aims to help people feel heard and to make small, practical changes that improve daily life.
She has 13 years of experience and holds BACP registration, which is listed as her professional credential. In sessions she creates a calm space where clients can talk about what matters without judgment.
Background and approach
She encourages honest talk and simple, workable steps rather than long lectures. Dilnia often combines Cognitive Behavioural Therapy with Emotionally-Focused Therapy and mindfulness practices. This mix helps people notice unhelpful thinking, understand strong emotions, and learn coping habits they can use at home.
She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to explore patterns that repeat across relationships. Typical concerns she addresses include communication problems, codependency, blended family issues, attachment worries, abandonment and separation. She also supports people dealing with body image and eating-related struggles, and carers coping with stress.
Sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different schedules. The first steps are brief: complete the short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that fits with the therapist's availability.
What Dilnia works with
Everything Dilnia lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Dilnia helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Dilnia lists
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Approaches that suit online parenting and relationship work
Emotion-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name strong feelings in relationships and use those emotions to improve connection and repair. It is useful for communication problems and commitment concerns.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going. It teaches simple tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and to build new habits for managing stress, body image worries or eating-related difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will discuss goals, try methods that fit the client, and adjust the focus as needs change. That collaborative process helps match techniques to what a person hopes to change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different days and routines. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation when tone and facial cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a busy day. Live chat or messaging can suit short check-ins, written reflection or for people who prefer not to be on camera.
Questions people ask about Dilnia
What issues does this counsellor help with?
Dilnia supports people with relationship difficulties, parenting concerns, eating and body image problems, and low self-esteem. She also works on attachment, abandonment, blended family and carer stress issues.
What is the counselling style like?
Sessions are conversational and practical. She blends cognitive work, emotion-focused methods and mindfulness to help clients notice patterns and try new ways of coping.
How much experience does she have?
She has 13 years of professional experience working with people on relationship, family and eating-related concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
The profile shows BACP as the professional credential and the counsellor practises from the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and Kurdish.
What session formats are available?
Work can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different routines and preferences.
How are sessions billed?
Cost varies with location and the therapist's schedule; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
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