About Kerry
Kerry Griggs helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship problems, depression and major life changes. She also supports those coping with grief, addictive behaviours, intimacy issues and challenges connected to parenting, work or identity. Kerry works with LGBT adults and people dealing with trauma, sleep or eating difficulties.
She brings eight years' experience and holds BACP accreditation. Kerry uses a calm, person-centred approach. She listens without judgement and makes space for people to speak at their own pace.
How Kerry works
Sessions focus on what matters to the individual, not on fitting them to a model. She draws on practical therapies such as cognitive behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationships shape current reactions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy offers ways to tolerate difficult feelings while working towards meaningful goals. Kerry believes small changes can free up more options in daily life. She helps people notice strengths and use them to make decisions they were avoiding.
That can mean learning new ways to cope, trying different responses, or rebuilding confidence step by step. She sometimes includes breathwork, gentle movement, self-massage or creative exercises when they fit the client's needs, but conversation is always welcome as the main route. Kerry aims to be present and steady while clients find clearer ways forward.
Kerry lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| 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 counselling
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, then choose actions that fit their values. It works well for anxiety, depression and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers exercises to change unhelpful patterns; this can help with anxiety, sleep or low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how past relationships influence current reactions and helps people build different ways of relating to themselves and others.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kerry will talk through your situation and preferences and suggest ideas from these methods. The decision about what to try is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break from work. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, reflection between sessions or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it around everyday life.
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