- Compassionate counsellor
- Goal focused
- Works in English
About Derri
Derri Canning is a caring counsellor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. She works with clients facing depression, life changes and compassion fatigue. Her approach is practical and respectful, and she aims to tailor sessions to each person’s situation.
Derri uses straightforward conversation to help people identify goals and small steps they can take. She supports people through grief, intimacy concerns, parenting strains and relationship stress. She also addresses issues such as addictions, sleep and eating difficulties, ADHD-related challenges, and mood concerns including bipolar and postpartum depression.
Over four years she has built experience helping clients cope with obsessions and compulsions, phobias, jealousy and infidelity, and longer-term personality and paranoia worries. She also works with people affected by process addictions like gambling or problematic exercise and porn use, and seasonal mood shifts such as SAD.
Sessions are adapted to the person rather than following a fixed script. Derri aims to be sensitive and non-judgemental while helping people find practical ways forward. She emphasises short-term goals alongside exploring deeper patterns when that is helpful.
Derri sees the first step as the hardest and offers steady support while someone finds clearer direction. Her practised yet approachable manner helps people set achievable steps, review progress, and adjust plans as life changes.
Approaches that guide online work
Derri describes her work as practical and tailored, using evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people make changes and manage distress. One common approach focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new ways of responding, which can reduce anxiety and low mood by changing patterns of thought and behaviour. Another approach emphasises setting small, achievable goals and building routines to improve sleep, motivation and daily functioning, which often helps with depression, ADHD-related difficulties and seasonal low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Derri aims to collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts plans as progress is reviewed. That collaborative process means approaches can be blended or changed over time to match what is most helpful.
The biography does not list which remote session formats are offered, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around daily life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people continue therapy while living in a different region, and it supports flexible scheduling for those balancing work or family commitments.
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Experience
4+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of issues does this counsellor help with?
Derri supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem and depression, as well as life transitions. She also helps with parenting strain, relationship concerns, grief, addictions and sleep or eating difficulties.
How would sessions usually feel or flow?
Conversations are practical and goal oriented while also allowing space to look at deeper patterns. Sessions are tailored to individual needs and focus on small steps and clear goals.
What is Derri's professional background?
She has four years of professional experience working with a range of emotional and behavioural concerns. That experience includes work with mood disorders, OCD-type problems and process addictions.
Which credential does Derri hold and where is she based?
She is recorded as BACP and works from the United Kingdom.
Can I work with her if I live outside the UK?
Sessions are offered to international clients, and she conducts work in English.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats. Please confirm current session options with the service before booking.
How are fees handled?
Cost is reported to vary with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What do I need to do to begin?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing the short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to the therapist's availability.