About Declan
Declan Kent helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by life changes, low mood, anxiety, relationship strain or worries about identity. He offers a calm, practical presence and focuses on what a person wants to change. Declan describes therapy as a shared process where the client sets the goals and he helps map a way forward.
He trained in psychology at undergraduate level and later completed a masters in counselling and psychotherapy.
How Declan works
He also spent time as an honorary assistant psychologist in hospitals, where he worked alongside clinical teams and observed many different ways of supporting people with challenging behaviour. Declan uses an integrative approach. That means he draws on several ways of working and picks what suits the person in front of him.
Sessions often mix practical skills, reflection on relationships and attention to values and goals. In practice he uses methods such as acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based thinking, client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural techniques and skills from dialectical behaviour therapy. Sessions can include goal-setting, behavioural experiments and exercises to manage strong feelings.
People come to him for a wide range of concerns including depression, stress, addictions, grief, eating and sleeping difficulties, ADHD and challenges with intimacy or identity. He also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, career pressures and issues around control or impulsivity. Declan works in the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English.
He aims to make therapy straightforward and relevant so people can try practical steps between meetings and notice small changes over time.
Declan lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Declan works with
The areas below are the ones Declan selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small steps in that direction while learning to sit with difficult thoughts. It is often used for anxiety, low mood and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going and teaches practical exercises to try different actions and ways of thinking. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression and sleep or eating difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Declan will talk through your goals and preferences and suggest which methods might fit. Together you can try an approach and adapt it if something feels unhelpful or doesn’t match what you need; the process is collaborative rather than fixed.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let you work face to face when convenient, phone sessions can fit into a short break or need less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat provide ongoing check-ins or brief focused exchanges between meetings. These options help people fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments while still working on concrete skills and goals with a registered or accredited professional.
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