- Years in practice
- 13
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Grief
- Focus
- Eating disorders
About Patience
Patience Destiny is a counsellor with 13 years of experience supporting people facing parenting stress and many related concerns. She offers a calm, respectful presence for parents who feel overwhelmed, exhausted, or unsure about next steps. Her work covers a wide range of problems that often show up alongside parenting strain.
These include anxiety, depression, grief, sleep problems, eating and body-image issues, addictions, anger, relationship and intimacy difficulties, and career pressures.
Background and approach
She also helps with family-of-origin issues, blended-family challenges, adoption and foster care matters, and coping with long-term illness in a loved one. Patience blends practical talking therapy with mindfulness and values-based work. She uses elements of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioural techniques, narrative approaches and client-centred listening to shape sessions around each person.
Conversations are collaborative and aimed at real-life change, such as improving daily routines, managing intense emotions, or building clearer communication. Sessions can be short-term or longer, depending on what is needed. She pays attention to personal background and cultural factors and treats people with sensitivity and respect.
Her aim is to help people build skills they can use outside the session and to support parents as they juggle competing demands. Based in the United Kingdom, Patience is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She works with clients in English and is available to people internationally through online formats.
What Patience works with
Everything Patience lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Patience helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
- Coaching
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Patience lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches and online support for parents
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then move toward values-based actions that matter. It can be useful for parents feeling overwhelmed by anxiety or stuck in unhelpful patterns.Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience with warmth and respect, creating space to reflect and make gradual changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and gives practical tools for coping with mood, sleep and worry.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Patience will collaborate with each person to choose which methods fit their goals, background and day-to-day life. She adapts techniques as therapy progresses so the plan remains useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video suits conversations that need visual connection, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins or when a written format feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around parenting schedules and life demands.
Questions people ask about Patience
What concerns does Patience commonly help with?
She helps with parenting stress alongside anxiety, depression, grief, sleep and eating issues, addictions, relationship and family-of-origin concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is warm and interactive, combining listening with practical strategies from several approaches to suit each person's needs.
What is Patience's background and experience?
She has 13 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of life and mental health issues, including long-term illness and caregiving stress.
Which professional credential does she hold and where is she based?
Patience is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises from the United Kingdom.
What languages and international options are available?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts clients internationally through online formats.
Which session formats does she offer?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How are sessions charged?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with Patience?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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