About Kirsty
Kirsty Waite is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience and a BACP registration. She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where people can talk about feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck. Kirsty meets people at their own pace and helps them work toward practical change.
Her background includes more than 600 clinical hours and experience supporting people with anxiety, stress, grief and loss, low self-esteem, trauma and past abuse, and life transitions.
How Kirsty works
Kirsty also draws on her own lived experience as a carer to relate to those juggling caregiving and their own wellbeing. She uses an integrative approach that adapts to each person. That can mean client-centred sessions to follow what matters most, cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns, or attachment-informed work to look at how relationships shape feelings.
The style is collaborative and practical, with structure used when it helps. Kirsty’s additional focus areas include chronic illness and disability, compassion fatigue, relationship and communication problems, career concerns, panic and mood disorders, and issues tied to abandonment or attachment. She also supports people facing cancer-related challenges and caregiver stress.
Sessions are available in English and can be delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Therapy is provided via a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist’s availability.
Her aim is straightforward: to listen, help people make sense of difficult emotions, and support practical steps toward feeling better.
Kirsty lists 10 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
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace 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
Approaches for online therapy and how they help
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying values and taking small, meaningful actions even when strong emotions are present. It supports people struggling with anxiety, depression, stress and getting stuck in unhelpful patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and habits; it is often helpful for panic, mood disorders, and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early and current relationship patterns shape reactions and attachment needs, and it can help with abandonment issues, relationship difficulties and loneliness.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through the options and agree a plan that fits the person’s goals, needs and preferences. Sessions can combine methods and are tailored over time as progress and priorities become clearer.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how and when people connect. Video calls let sessions feel more like face-to-face meetings, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or health commitments while still accessing registered or accredited professionals and therapists who use the approaches described.
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