Debra Basham, BACP

Debra Basham built a long career in business spanning more than two decades before making a deliberate shift into counselling and coaching. During her corporate years she earned recognition for leadership and people development, including being named in Insider Business Magazine's Inaugural Women of Influence in 2015 and receiving a European Call Centre Award for her work. Her professional path took her around the world, with roles in America, India, and Australia and a strong reputation as a mentor and coach to colleagues at many levels.

After a series of life-changing events, she chose to leave the corporate ladder and retrain. She completed a three-year university programme to qualify as a coach and counsellor, specialising in career and life coaching alongside person-centred counselling. While training she continued to support others as a mental health champion in a corporate setting and volunteered with a cruise grief service, offering listening and practical support to people facing loss.

Her clinical approach draws on client-centered therapy, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused therapy to help people navigate stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, self-esteem concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting and career challenges, and a range of life transitions. She is a member of the Association of coaching, the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, and the BACP (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy).