About Kemi
Kemi Folarin offers a warm, person-focused counselling style grounded in Client-Centred and Psychodynamic ideas. He keeps sessions paced to each person and aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can be heard and understood. Kemi helps people talk through what is happening for them and build greater self-awareness.
He encourages clients to draw on their own inner resources. Sessions are led by the client and shaped around their goals.
How Kemi works
He draws on solution-focused thinking to help people identify small, practical steps towards change. That can mean working on stress, anxiety, low mood, addiction concerns, or coping with big life changes. He also supports work on relationships, grief, parenting pressures, and issues around self-esteem and anger.
Kemi has five years of counselling experience and holds BACP accreditation, which is recorded as BACP. His background includes charity leadership and academic study in psychology, sociology and youth work. He brings that experience to conversations about workplace strain, young adult issues, women's concerns and isolation.
People will find sessions that blend listening, reflection and practical problem-solving. Kemi aims to help clients notice what they want, try new ways of thinking and act on changes they feel ready for. He also works with seasonal mood concerns such as Seasonal Affective Disorder and supports those wanting to build self-love.
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What Kemi works with
The areas below are the ones Kemi selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approach-driven online counselling and flexible formats
The Client-Centred approach places the person's experience at the heart of the work, with the therapist offering attentive listening and support to help people make sense of their feelings and choices. It is useful for low mood, self-esteem issues and relationship concerns.Psychodynamic work looks at patterns that repeat over time and how past experiences influence current feelings and reactions. This can help when someone wants to understand deeper emotional drivers behind anxiety, grief or recurring relationship struggles.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be worked out together. The therapist talks with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then adapts sessions over time to match those needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face contact when needed, phone sessions are useful for those with limited bandwidth or who prefer a simpler setup, and live chat or text messaging support shorter check-ins and ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, study or caring responsibilities while keeping the therapeutic focus intact.
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