Novena-Chanel Davies , BACP

Novena-Chanel (No-ve-na-Cha-nel) Davies is a registered integrative counsellor who combines clinical practice with teaching, supervision, coaching, and creative consultation. She works as a counselling supervisor and lecturer, and also practices as a life coach, Reiki master, and yoga teacher. In addition to clinical work, she contributes as a media consultant, writer, and public speaker on topics including childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, race and identity, epigenetics and family trauma, and mental health and self-care.

Her training spans person-centred, psychodynamic, intercultural, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), attachment theory, and transactional analysis, allowing her to draw on a range of methods to suit each person she works with. This integrative, relational approach helps clients identify and untangle difficult patterns in their lives and relationships, challenge unhelpful thinking, and take steps toward healing and change. Much of her work focuses on addressing intergenerational patterns and helping people break unhealthy cycles.

Novena-Chanel aims to empower people to realise their potential while building practical, realistic foundations to sustain progress after therapy ends. She develops tailored therapy plans and regularly reviews them with clients, collaborating to determine which counselling approach best fits a client’s personality and presenting concerns. She holds BACP membership, which indicates affiliation with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Attachment, Client-Centred, and CBT approaches for online care

Novena-Chanel commonly draws on Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centred Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in her work. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns of relating and emotion, helping with difficulties such as abandonment, attachment issues, and relationship strain. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on offering empathy, acceptance, and support while the client leads the pace of change - it is helpful for building self-esteem, exploring values, and working through life transitions. CBT looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours and provides practical tools to challenge negative thinking and develop coping strategies for anxiety, low mood, and trauma-related symptoms.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Novena-Chanel works collaboratively with clients and with reference to licensed professionals when needed to identify the methods that best match a client’s needs, goals, and personal style, adapting plans as progress is made.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call or phone, and there are options for live chat or text-based messaging. This makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, to maintain continuity if circumstances change, and to access care from different locations, including for international clients.