About Kelly
Kelly Dynes offers support for stress, anxiety, trauma, depression and a wide range of life challenges. She helps people facing compassion fatigue, addictions, parenting strain, relationship issues, grief and difficulties with self-esteem. Kelly also works with concerns such as ADHD, career uncertainty, anger, and coping with major life changes.
She is based in the United Kingdom and communicates in English. Kelly keeps sessions straightforward and grounded. She values a trusting relationship and listens carefully before suggesting ways forward.
How Kelly works
Conversations focus on what feels useful now, with practical steps and emotional understanding mixed together. Her experience includes over a decade working with trauma, bereavement, anxiety and depression. That background informs how she structures sessions and responds to distress.
Kelly also brings personal insight from living with a physical disability and using a wheelchair, which shapes her awareness of accessibility and daily life pressures. She supports neurodivergent clients and has experience with intellectual disability and autism.
Kelly is learning British Sign Language and aims to add it to her practice within the next year, though she does not use it in sessions yet. Kelly draws on a mix of approaches to suit each person. She combines client-centred listening with techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy, emotionally-focused work and trauma-focused methods.
Mindfulness is used where helpful to manage overwhelming feelings.
Kelly lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Kelly works with
The areas below are the ones Kelly selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Kelly’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on building a supportive relationship. The counsellor listens closely and helps people find their own solutions, which is useful for low mood, anxiety and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions. Sessions include practical techniques to change patterns that maintain anxiety, panic or depression and teach skills to manage symptoms.
Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on safe, paced ways to work through traumatic memories and reactions. It aims to reduce distressing flashbacks or avoidance and to restore a sense of control after traumatic events.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and try different ways of working to see what helps best. Over time the focus may shift as needs and priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video resembles face-to-face conversation, phone can be useful when bandwidth is low, live chat allows shorter check-ins and messaging suits people who prefer written reflection. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caring duties or mobility needs, while still accessing registered or accredited professionals and therapists.
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