About Keely
Keely Strange offers a warm, person-centred counselling style that focuses on what the client brings to each session. She uses listening and empathy to help people understand their feelings and manage emotions more effectively. Keely has nine years of experience working in counselling roles across university and clinical settings in the United Kingdom.
Her professional background includes supporting students and staff where study, work and everyday life intersect. She has helped people navigate anxiety, depression, PTSD, ADHD and other barriers to learning and functioning.
How Keely works
Much of this work has been carried out remotely by phone and video, and she has long experience in telephone counselling. Keely also has experience supporting people affected by addiction, domestic violence, grief, self-harm and relationship difficulties. She uses solution-focused techniques alongside client-centred care to help people identify small, practical steps forward.
Mindfulness approaches are used to help with stress, panic and emotional regulation. In addition to counselling, Keely’s work history has included welfare roles within universities and administrative responsibilities such as payroll and bookkeeping. Those roles have reinforced a focus on practical problem solving and maintaining clear boundaries in professional work.
She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP, and participates in regular fortnightly supervision. Keely offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging and accepts clients internationally.
Keely lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Keely works with
The areas below are the ones Keely selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Using person-centred and solution-focused work online
Keely uses client-centred therapy to start sessions by listening closely to what matters most to the person. This approach focuses on empathy, non-judgemental support and helping people find their own solutions to emotional difficulties. It is helpful for concerns such as low mood, self-esteem and managing life changes.She also draws on solution-focused therapy to identify small, practical steps that move a person forward. That approach narrows in on goals and what is already working, making it useful for stress, relationship problems and coping strategies. Mindfulness techniques are added when helpful to reduce panic, manage anxiety and support emotional regulation.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide what feels most useful based on needs, goals and preferences. Sessions adapt over time as progress is reviewed and goals change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited; live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around study, work and family commitments.
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