David Cuff, BACP
7 years in practice
David Cuff works with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief and low self-esteem.
License and registration
- BACP
- 382975 · expires October 2026
- Years in practice
- 7
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About David
David Cuff works with stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, grief and low self-esteem. He supports people facing life changes, addiction concerns, trauma and intimacy issues. He also helps with sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, anger and career worries.
David addresses mood conditions such as depression and bipolar, and offers coaching for compassion fatigue and ADHD-related challenges. David practises from a humanistic, person-centred perspective. He keeps sessions gentle and follows the client's lead.
Background and approach
He pays attention to how feelings show up in the body and to what is felt in the moment. This gives practical ways to make sense of experience rather than labels or quick fixes. He describes his style as non-judgemental and relational.
He takes an LGBTQI+ affirmative stance and regards neurodiversity as a difference rather than a disorder. He aims to be a companion for part of a person's journey while they work out meaning, choices and next steps. David draws on several therapeutic approaches to shape conversations in session.
He uses existential ideas about meaning and choice alongside client-centred listening and emotion-focused work. He also brings somatic awareness and Jungian themes where they feel useful to the person in front of him. He holds the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy qualification at postgraduate level in Humanistic Psychotherapeutic Counselling from the University of Brighton and is a BACP member.
He has seven years' experience and has undertaken additional training in online and telephone counselling and relational depth work.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything David lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches David names
- Existential Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Jungian Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
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Online support
How his approaches translate to online therapy
David blends existential thinking, client-centred listening and emotion-focused methods in ways that suit online work. Existential therapy looks at meaning, choice and responsibility and can help when life changes or identity questions feel overwhelming. Client-centred therapy is built on careful, non-judgemental listening to help a person feel heard and to find their own solutions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on understanding and regulating intense feelings, which can help with anxiety, relationship distress and grief.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. He collaborates with each person to decide what feels most useful, and adapts techniques as the work progresses. Sessions often combine gentle listening, noticing bodily sensations and practical tasks agreed together to test new ways of relating or coping.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls mirror a face-to-face conversation and suit deeper work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins or for people who express themselves better in writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while still keeping the therapeutic process active.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does he help with?
He supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship issues, grief and self-esteem concerns. He also works with addictions, trauma, parenting strain, sleep and eating issues and a wide range of other life challenges.
What is his therapeutic style like?
His style is gentle and relational and he follows the client's lead. Sessions focus on making meaning, noticing feelings in the body and finding practical next steps.
How much experience does he have?
He has seven years' experience working as a humanistic psychotherapeutic counsellor. That time includes work with a variety of emotional and behavioural concerns.
What professional credentials does he hold and where is he based?
He holds a postgraduate qualification in Humanistic Psychotherapeutic Counselling from the University of Brighton and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). He is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the UK work with him?
He does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available online?
Sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are fees and getting started organised?
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