Yolande Dewar

Yolande Dewar is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, depression and other life changes. She works with a wide range of concerns including intimacy and parenting struggles, ADHD, compassion fatigue and issues around self-esteem and purpose. Yolande uses a calm, empathetic manner to make it easier to talk about difficult things.

She prefers video and phone conversations for sessions and aims to make conversations straightforward and practical. Conversations focus on what matters most now and on small steps people can try between sessions. Yolande uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which links thoughts, feelings and actions to help shift unhelpful patterns.

With 14 years’ experience and BACP registration, she brings steady clinical experience to conversations. That background shapes how she structures sessions and discusses coping strategies, but she keeps language plain and direct rather than clinical.

People can expect a reflective, problem-solving tone in sessions. Yolande listens for patterns and offers practical tools alongside exploration of feelings. This approach is intended to support day-to-day coping as well as longer term change.

She also works with issues such as trauma and abuse, obsessive thoughts, panic, hoarding, domestic violence, divorce and separation, and autism and Asperger Syndrome. When relevant, sessions include strategies for sleep, eating, managing money stress and rebuilding self-compassion.

How CBT and practical talking help online

Yolande uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) as a central way to structure online work. CBT looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and helps people try small behavioural changes that can reduce anxiety, depression and panic. It is often used for stress, obsessive thinking and mood difficulties.

She pairs CBT with straightforward conversation and practical tasks. That means talking through current problems, identifying unhelpful patterns and agreeing on simple experiments to try between sessions. The work is collaborative - the therapist and the person will decide together what feels most useful and adjust the approach as needed.

Practical benefits of online sessions include easier fitting of appointments into a busy week and the ability to meet from familiar surroundings. Phone sessions can be useful when a video call feels too much, and video lets the therapist pick up on non-verbal cues. Because formats are noted in the biography as a preference, confirm the current session options before booking so you know which ones are available and how they would fit into your routine.