Nathan Dean, NCPS

Nathan Dean (he/him) is a person-centered therapist based in the United Kingdom who works with clients across the globe. He emphasizes exploring each person's lived experience and collaborating to find what fits an individual's circumstances and worldview rather than handing down direct advice. This approach creates space to address concerns such as grief, depression, anxiety, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, addictions, self-esteem, and a range of intimacy-related and life-stage challenges.

He integrates techniques and theories from other therapeutic traditions, including gestalt and cognitive behavioral therapy, and draws on Jungian and narrative approaches when they suit the client's needs. He continues to study additional modalities and considers ways to decolonize his practice so that therapy can feel relevant and culturally aware for the people he sees.

Nathan offers a Mental Health MOT option - an initial six-session review that maps current strengths and areas for change using tools such as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and the Japanese idea of Ikigai. This format is intended for people who want a structured check-in to identify what is working, what could improve, and where to focus next.

As a Covid Conscious Therapist, he acknowledges that the pandemic remains a factor in many lives and supports clients who are still isolating or taking precautions. He works with people around boundary setting, community finding, and the particular concerns of those who are immunocompromised or living with disability, and he offers resources and a group session on this platform for people who wish to meet others with similar experiences.

Nathan also speaks from lived experience of chronic illness and living with a stoma. Having managed Crohn's disease and an ileostomy stoma, he understands how visible and invisible disabilities can shape daily life, energy levels, and practical needs. He brings that perspective into sessions when relevant, helping clients explore what serves them best rather than any right or wrong way to live.

Nathan works with people on a wide range of issues including stress, coping with life changes, anger, career concerns, ADHD, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting, compassion fatigue, abandonment and attachment issues, communication and control challenges, dissociation, emptiness, hoarding, and more. His clinical approaches include client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, Jungian therapy, and narrative therapy. He holds the NCPS credential, a counselling and psychotherapy qualification, and offers services in English. Nathan is accepting new clients, including international clients, and provides sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.