About Kirsty
Kirsty Palmer is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She brings six years of practice and an NCPS credential to her work. Kirsty aims to make the first step towards change simple and approachable for people feeling stuck.
She uses a gentle, client-centred way of working that lets people set the pace. Sessions tend to focus on what matters most to the individual and build from their strengths. Kirsty listens for patterns in relationships, attachment and emotional responses to help clients make practical shifts.
How Kirsty works
Kirsty also draws on cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and small behaviour changes that make daily life easier. Attachment-based perspectives inform how she talks about closeness, boundaries and intimacy. These combined approaches suit people facing stress, anxiety, depression, or relationship and attachment difficulties.
Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns, including addictions, grief, parenting strain, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD and caregiver stress. She also supports those dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue, body image and identity-related matters. Kirsty aims for a straightforward style in sessions.
She helps clients set clear goals and tries out manageable steps between meetings. People who prefer calm, non-judgemental conversation and practical tools often find this approach useful.
Kirsty lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Kirsty works with
The areas below are the ones Kirsty selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Kirsty’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how past and current relationships shape feelings of safety and closeness. Online sessions can explore patterns in attachment and help people try new ways of relating in their everyday life. Cognitive behavioural work looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. This approach uses clear steps and tasks to change unhelpful thinking and small behaviours, which can be practised between sessions and reviewed online.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The counsellor will work collaboratively to match methods to the client’s goals, needs and preferences. Together they will adapt techniques and pace so that sessions feel manageable and relevant.
Using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging gives practical flexibility. Video is useful for a near face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows a typed back-and-forth for shorter check-ins and messaging supports brief reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family and daily life.
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A practical next step
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