About Kerry
Kerry Atkins is a counsellor and psychotherapist practising in the United Kingdom. She has three years of clinical experience and works with common problems such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma. Kerry also offers support for relationship and intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping difficulties, and issues linked to ADHD and bipolar disorder.
Kerry aims to make starting therapy a little easier by keeping sessions grounded and straightforward. She draws on her own experience of being in therapy to shape a calm and steady approach.
How Kerry works
Sessions focus on listening, practical steps, and building emotional resilience at a pace the client can manage. Her work combines several well-known approaches to match each person’s needs. Kerry uses techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy to look at thoughts and behaviours, and acceptance and commitment therapy to help with values and living a meaningful life.
Attachment-based and emotionally focused ideas help when relationship patterns and connection are central concerns. In practice Kerry brings simple exercises into sessions, such as breathing work, somatic body exercises and guided meditation. These are used alongside talking so the mind and body are both addressed.
She keeps explanations plain and gives tools clients can try between sessions. Kerry offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, which many people find easier to fit into a busy week. She works in English and does not offer international clients at this time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and a session is arranged according to availability.
Kerry lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Kerry works with
The areas below are the ones Kerry selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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
Therapeutic approaches and online practice
Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and life transitions by encouraging small, value-led steps. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical exercises to change patterns that are causing distress.Attachment-based and emotionally focused ideas are used when relationship patterns and connection matter. These approaches look at how early bonds shape current responses and help people develop different ways of relating and feeling safer in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kerry discusses different methods with each person and together they pick what feels most helpful for the issues and goals presented. This collaborative process means therapy stays practical and tailored to the client’s needs.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins and messaging supports ongoing, flexible contact between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving or other commitments while keeping the focus on progress and practical tools.
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