About Kay
Kay Kimberley is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addictions and trauma. She supports those struggling with depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain and work-related issues. Kay also offers help for eating and sleeping problems, ADHD and compassion fatigue.
With six years working as a therapist and a longer background in mental health and substance abuse services, she brings practical experience to sessions.
How Kay works
Kay holds BACP accreditation, which stands for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She uses that experience to offer straightforward, evidence-informed support. Sessions focus on the person rather than labels.
Conversations aim to build understanding, reduce distress and find workable steps. Techniques are chosen to match the issue - for example, looking at thoughts and behaviours for anxiety, or exploring emotions in relationship concerns. Kay works with a wide range of difficulties often seen alongside each other, such as addiction with mood issues, or trauma alongside attachment struggles.
She pays attention to patterns like codependency, control issues and dissociation, and supports people dealing with domestic violence and recovery from substance and behavioural addictions. People can expect a calm, direct approach that mixes listening with practical strategies. The emphasis is on making changes that fit daily life and on pacing work so it feels manageable.
Kay speaks English and can meet people across the UK and internationally via online formats.
Kay lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Kay works with
The areas below are the ones Kay selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Kay’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person’s own experience. The therapist listens closely and helps people find their own solutions, which can help with low self-esteem, relationship concerns and decisions about change. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviours keep problems going and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood and change unhelpful habits. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on responding safely to traumatic memories and reactions, helping people reduce distress and build stabilising routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review your needs, goals and preferences and suggest options. Together you decide whether to prioritise emotion work, thought-based techniques or trauma-focused strategies and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging. Video allows fuller conversation and visual connection, phone can be better when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging can fit around work or childcare. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats as needs change.
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