Isabelle Dubois, BACP

Isabelle Dubois is a counsellor with 22 years of experience working in the United Kingdom. She practises from a relational integrative stance and spends time listening carefully so clients feel heard. Isabelle welcomes conversations about stress, anxiety, relationships, self-esteem and low mood. She has worked in multicultural NHS settings and has supported GP-referred clients with a mix of concerns. Those include motivation, confidence, depression, grief and coping with life changes. Isabelle also runs a independent practice alongside that work. Sessions focus on building understanding between feelings and behaviours. She helps people name what is happening for them and test small changes that can make daily life easier. Practical steps are balanced with space to reflect on deeper patterns, such as attachment and relationship dynamics. Isabelle draws on approaches that place the person at the centre of the work, including client-centred and emotionally-focused methods. Mindfulness and existential ideas are used when helpful to explore meaning, values and present-moment coping. She can work in English and French. The first sessions are used to clarify goals and agree a way forward together. People are encouraged to move at a pace that suits them while focusing on concrete steps they can try between meetings.

How her approaches translate to online counselling

Isabelle uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early patterns shape current relationships and emotional reactions; this can help when people struggle with jealousy, commitment worries or communication problems. Client-centred therapy means the work begins with what matters to the person, offering a steady, non-directive space to talk through immediate concerns and build self-trust. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on emotions in relationships and can be used to help identify, name and shift painful interaction cycles that keep causing distress. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Isabelle will discuss different ways of working and decide together which methods suit the person’s concerns, goals and preferences. That choice is collaborative and can change as progress is made. Please confirm the current session options before booking, as formats were not specified in the supplied profile. Online work commonly helps fit therapy into a busy life by reducing travel, allowing shorter check-ins around other commitments, and making it easier to attend when schedules are tight. Registered or accredited professionals, including many therapists, use these benefits to help people stay consistent with sessions and practise changes between meetings.