Testimonials from previous clients:

''She has an incredible ability to make you feel at ease, deeply listened to, and truly heard. Her guidance has helped me to make sense of thoughts and feelings that were difficult to express clearly. I am so very grateful to Anita for everything she has helped me achieve.''

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"I can’t thank Anita enough for giving me so many useful tools, and helping me to reflect on my thought patterns and behaviours in a way that will help me move forwards ...."
"I feel so much more confident dealing with my anxiety. Anita’s approach has changed my life, helping me feel calmer in myself. I feel I can handle life’s situations again."

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"I go forward with a renewed self-awareness and confidence"

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"You really have transformed my ways on thinking and changed my life!"

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"I can’t recommend Anita enough, she is amazing at what she does."
"Anita has a very gentle and supportive manner, and is especially re-assuring and encouraging."
"I would like to thank Anita for her help, understanding and the professional way she helped me through this."
"I cannot thank Anita enough for getting me back to being 'me' again!"
"You have been an amazing help in my life. Just knowing you are there has allowed me to become a stronger, more confident and more together person and I truly thank you."
"I don’t believe I would have ever found my confidence without working with Anita."
"Working with Anita taught me that actually I am a worthy lovable person."
"He no longer puts himself in danger and will often not even notice when he has walked past a dog at all."
"I couldn't have done it without you. Thank you."
"The counselling gave me strategies to help cope with the stress that came with my exams."
''Non-judgemental, not intimidating, a great listener, a great empathiser. She helped me view things in a different light, which catapulted my self-development.''

Anita Duke MBACP (Accred), GHSC (Accred)

B.A.(Hons), Adv.Dip.SomTrauma, Dip.IntCouns, Adv.Dip.Hyp/Psych, Dip.EMDR, MPract.NLP, TFTdx, Dip.SC

I appreciate that you may wish to know more about my background before choosing to work with me.

I have over 30 years experience working in a variety of professional roles. After graduating in my 20s, I spent 14 years working in business sales and marketing senior management. Having made a life-changing decision to leave the corporate world around family, I worked in various behaviour support, coaching and teaching roles in state education for another 12 years. It was during these years that I also trained as a therapist.

In 2012, alongside my work in education, I began practice as an NLP life coach specialising in women's wellbeing, confidence and self-esteem. In 2014, I expanded my therapeutic remit having qualified in clinical hypnotherapy. I then qualified in integrative counselling, advanced hypno-psychotherapy, EMDR, somatic trauma therapy, parts therapy, breathwork coaching and Thought Field Therapy (TFT). I have since worked as a counsellor for a social enterprise affiliated to the West Suffolk NHS Foundation IAPT service, and an Anxiety UK Approved Therapist.

In 2019 I launched Anita Duke Therapy to offer my full repertoire of skills and now work in full-time private practice, whilst continuing to support mental health charities through my practice connection with YANA. In 2023, I was invited to join the Bedfordshire Centre of Therapeutic Studies as an associate tutor. I now regularly facilitate workshops and reflective spaces for student counsellors. I am also a CPCAB approved tutor for the L3 Award in Breathwork Coaching.

Behind all of this, however, I have myself experienced the emotional roller-coaster that is human existence, and have met life, loss, and the legacy of complex trauma at a very deep and personal level. Some years ago my whole world changed overnight. I had to find the strength and resilience to navigate high levels of distress, chaos, helplessness, fear, uncertainty and loss over a prolonged period of years. I was caring for and supporting others, yet had lost my own sense of inner safety, and I personally experienced the very real and painful impact that trauma, stress and anxiety has on the body and nervous system.

Through my own healing journey I came to understand the value of therapy for working through complex emotions, life challenges and what stays stuck in the body. The legacy of my own trauma history and recovery now greatly informs and enriches my client work, supporting my ability to sit alongside, hear your truth, and hold you through whatever you are experiencing, whilst connecting you to your inner wisdom and resources.

Professional Bodies and Licences

I am a registered and accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), and accredited by the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council through the General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR). I abide by the code of conduct, ethical frameworks and requirements of both bodies, including supervision hours and continuous professional development (CPD).

I am also licensed as a Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ and NLP Coach by the NLP Society (personally approved by Richard Bandler™).

I hold an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) certificate and am fully insured for all therapies offered.

Anita Duke, BACP Accredited Counsellor &Trauma Therapist, Bury St Edmunds and Online (UK)

Qualifications and Training

Training in integrative therapy has enabled me to develop a breadth of understanding and competency across different counselling and psychotherapy approaches, and I have the following formal therapy and coaching qualifications:

- Adv. Diploma in Somatic Trauma Therapy
- Diploma in Integrative Counselling

- Adv. Diploma in Hypno-Psychotherapy & Counselling
- Diploma in Integrative Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy
- Diploma in Eye Movement Desensitisation & Reprocessing (EMDR)

- Advanced Certificate in Understanding & Applying Parts Theories
- Certificate in Online & Telephone Counselling (BACP approved)
- Certificate in Practitioner Specialism for Trauma Informed Practice

(NCIP approved - Level 7)
- Foundation Certificate in the Application of Polyvagal Theory

- CPCAB L3 Award in Breathwork Coaching

- Master Practitioner Certificate in Neuro Linguistic Programming

- Diagnostic Practitioner Certificate in Thought Field Therapy (TFT)

- Practitioner Certificate in The Human Toolbox™
- Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Hypnosis
- Certificate in the Practice of Hypno-Virtual Gastric Band

- General Qualification in Hypnotherapy Practice (GQHP) awarded by the General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC).

- Graduate Diploma in Style Coaching™

I remain committed to continued professional development (CPD). In recent years, this has included attending workshops, courses and undertaking research in cultural attunement and working within diversity, narcissistic abuse, sensorimotor therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), the Rewind Technique (also known as NLP Theatre Screen / Fast Phobia Technique), and Ali Campbell's rapid change hypnotherapy and NLP masterclasses.

I also continually update my skillset around my core therapeutic approaches, working with suicide and self-harm, regulating the autonomic nervous system, breathwork and somatic practices, creative therapy, inner child therapy, EMDR, and working with trauma, anxiety, stress, phobias, depression, bereavement, as well as around ethics and practice management.

Online counsellor & therapist, Suffolk, UK

Anita Duke, Bury St Edmunds counsellor & trauma therapist

Trauma Therapist, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Anita Duke, accredited clinical hypnotherapist, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Anita Duke, clinical hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

Authorised Human Toolbox Practitioner, Suffolk

Anita Duke, Licensed Master NLP Practitioner, Suffolk, UK

''She has an incredible ability to make you feel at ease, deeply listened to, and truly heard. Her guidance has helped me to make sense of thoughts and feelings that were difficult to express clearly. I am so very grateful to Anita for everything she has helped me achieve.''

"I can’t thank Anita enough for giving me so many useful tools, and helping me to reflect on my thought patterns and behaviours in a way that will help me move forwards ...."

"I feel so much more confident dealing with my anxiety. Anita’s approach has changed my life, helping me feel calmer in myself. I feel I can handle life’s situations again."

"I go forward with a renewed self-awareness and confidence"

"You really have transformed my ways on thinking and changed my life!"

"I can’t recommend Anita enough, she is amazing at what she does."

"Anita has a very gentle and supportive manner, and is especially re-assuring and encouraging."

"I would like to thank Anita for her help, understanding and the professional way she helped me through this."

"I cannot thank Anita enough for getting me back to being 'me' again!"

"You have been an amazing help in my life. Just knowing you are there has allowed me to become a stronger, more confident and more together person and I truly thank you."

"I don’t believe I would have ever found my confidence without working with Anita."

"Working with Anita taught me that actually I am a worthy lovable person."

"He no longer puts himself in danger and will often not even notice when he has walked past a dog at all."

"I couldn't have done it without you. Thank you."

"The counselling gave me strategies to help cope with the stress that came with my exams."

''Non-judgemental, not intimidating, a great listener, a great empathiser. She helped me view things in a different light, which catapulted my self-development.''

Anita Duke MBACP (Accred), GHSC (Accred)

Professional Bodies and Licences

Qualifications and Training

Practice HoursMon - Fri: 8.00am - 6.00pm Sat - Sun: Closed BY PRIOR APPOINTMENT ONLY

Practice Hours
Mon - Fri: 8.00am - 6.00pm
Sat - Sun: Closed

BY PRIOR APPOINTMENT ONLY