About Kerry
Kerry Forster is a counsellor who aims to help people dealing with stress, anxiety and low self-esteem. She works with individuals facing grief, relationship problems, depression and trauma-related concerns. Kerry also supports people managing career changes, sleep and eating difficulties, and the practical strain of caregiving or chronic illness.
She uses a person-centred approach at the heart of her practice, so sessions are shaped by what each person brings. Kerry blends that with techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and dialectical behaviour therapy when helpful.
How Kerry works
This mix lets her challenge unhelpful thoughts while keeping the focus on the person's experience. Clients can expect a calm, non-judgemental space to talk things through. Kerry aims to help people notice patterns, try new ways of coping, and set manageable goals.
Conversations are practical and grounded in everyday life rather than abstract theory. With five years' experience and registration with NCPS, Kerry has worked with a wide range of difficulties. Her additional focus areas include attachment issues, ADHD, body image, and the needs of people in kink or alternative sex cultures.
She also supports those affected by chronic pain, cancer and caregiver stress. Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted. Kerry offers a straightforward route to beginning therapy through an online matching process and a range of session formats to suit different schedules and needs.
Kerry lists 10 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- 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
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| 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
How Kerry’s approaches translate to online therapy
Kerry uses attachment-based approaches to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This helps when people struggle with connection, trust or repeated relationship problems and offers a way to practise different responses in sessions.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on spotting and shifting unhelpful thoughts and routines. CBT is practical and useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep and some eating concerns because it breaks problems into manageable steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kerry will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and will adapt methods in collaboration with them. The process is shared - decisions about techniques and pacing are made together so therapy fits the individual's needs.
Online therapy with Kerry is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions suit people with lower bandwidth or who prefer not to use video, and live chat or messaging can be helpful for shorter check-ins or when someone wants time to write their thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or travel and to keep continuity when circumstances change.
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