Counsellor profile
Dorcas Upshall, BACP
United Kingdom
BACP counsellor - Anger and relationships
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- CredentialsBACP
- RegistrationBACP, United Kingdom / 406848
- Experience3 years
- LanguagesEnglish
- LocationUnited Kingdom
About
- CBT approaches
- Client-centred work
- Kink aware practice
About Dorcas
Dorcas Upshall is a BACP counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She focuses on everyday pressures like stress and anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, and anger. Sessions also address addiction, self-esteem, eating-related issues, and identity matters including LGBT concerns.
Dorcas centres sessions on the client's goals and works collaboratively. She helps people notice thought patterns that get in the way and identifies behaviours they want to change. Conversations aim to make difficult memories and feelings easier to understand and manage.
Her background includes work in domestic abuse services, women’s centres, pastoral care in schools, LGBTQ+ charities, and addiction and recovery settings. She has experience supporting people connected to kink and alternative relationship structures and has worked in special needs provisions and teaching for over ten years.
In practice she draws on Client-Centred ideas and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to look at thoughts and actions, and also uses Internal Family Systems and Existential Therapy to examine identity and inner parts. The therapist focuses on practical tools people can try between sessions to test what helps.
People who want clear, down-to-earth conversations about anger, resentment, or snapping at people will find a direct style here. Dorcas asks clients to set goals and tests approaches together, adjusting what they do based on how it works in everyday life.
How sessions work
Therapeutic approaches and working online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to you. It helps when you want someone to follow your lead and explore what feels most important. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. This can be useful for managing anger, worry and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss different ways of working and choose methods together based on your goals, preferences and what fits your situation. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are made if something does not feel helpful.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm the available online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around work or family life, cut travel time, or have shorter check-ins when that suits your schedule. It also allows trying conversational and CBT-style exercises in the moments they matter, so you can test what works in daily life without changing your routine.
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Experience
3+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
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What concerns does she help with?
Dorcas works with stress, anxiety, anger, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, grief, self-esteem and related concerns listed in her profile.
How would she approach anger in sessions?
She uses collaborative conversations to identify thought patterns and behaviours that fuel anger, then experiments with practical tools to respond differently.
What is her professional background?
She has worked in domestic abuse services, women’s centres, pastoral care in schools, LGBTQ+ charities, and addiction and recovery services, and has teaching experience.
What credential does she hold and where does she practise?
She is registered with the BACP and practises in the United Kingdom.
Does she work in other languages or with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm the current session options before booking as the biography does not specify formats.
How are costs handled?
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is unsafe, use the crisis numbers.