Debi Bell
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About me
Relationships are complicated. Sometimes life pulls couples apart gradually, and sometimes one conversation changes everything. Whether you're trying to find your way back to each other, working through an affair or betrayal, or trying to work out what you actually want, I can help.
I work with couples using Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT), an evidence based approach that focuses on the emotional connection underneath the arguments and the distance, whether that shows up as conflict, jealousy, or growing apart. I also work with individuals using Person Centred Therapy, supporting people through anxiety, stress, burnout, career transition, redundancy, bereavement, low self-esteem, and the identity questions that tend to surface in midlife.
Before retraining as a counsellor, I spent 30 years in senior leadership, including at PLC board level, across supply chain and strategy roles in major UK businesses. I understand the weight that demanding careers put on people, their confidence, and their relationships, because I lived it myself.
I see clients at my practice in Cottingham, East Yorkshire (near Hull/Beverley) and online. I offer weekdays including evenings, and weekends (Sat & Sun). A free 20 minute consultation call is available if you'd like to talk before booking. All booking details on my page www.debell.co.uk
DeBell Counselling
Training, qualifications & experience
- MSc Counselling (Level 7), University of Lincoln
- PGDip Counselling, Level 7
- BACP Registered Member MBACP (Register number 420184)
- ICEEFT Certified, Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy
- ICEEFT Externship completed 2026
- Qualified Civil and Workplace Mediator
- ASIST Suicide Intervention trained
- Accredited Mental Health First Aider
- MBA, University of Lincoln
Former Senior Director, Supply Chain and Strategy (30 years, including BAE Systems, Burberry, Reckitt, Smith and Nephew)
Voluntary experience includes Samaritans, The Blue Door, Mind East Riding, and Cruse Bereavement Care.
Member organisations
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
Affairs and betrayals don't have to be the end of a relationship, though it can feel that way at first. In EFCT terms, a betrayal is an attachment injury, a rupture in the sense that your partner is a safe place to land. There's an established path through it: building enough safety to talk about what happened, the hurt partner being properly heard, real accountability from the partner who broke trust, and rebuilding something lasting rather than just moving past it.
I also work with couples who've separated and are trying to find their way back to each other, which happens more often than people expect.
Therapies offered
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Fees
£50.00 - £80.00
Concessions offered for
Additional information
Individual sessions: £60 (reduced rate upon request £50)
Couples sessions: £80 (reduced rate upon request £70)
Free 20-minute initial consultation available.
Payment by card, bank transfer, or cash.
When I work
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Further information
I'm direct, warm and easy to talk to rather than formal or distant, and clients often tell me that's not what they expected from a first session. Alongside individual and couples work, I also support HR teams, managers and Mental Health First Aiders who hold a lot for their colleagues without always having their own support in place.
My practice is wheelchair accessible, and sessions run via Zoom, Teams or WhatsApp for anyone who prefers online.
