About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Kew is a counsellor and psychotherapist who trained with a BSc in Counselling from the University of East London. She holds BACP accreditation and has built clinical experience over four years in both NHS and charity settings. Elizabeth offers sessions online, by phone and also in person for people across the United Kingdom.
She uses an integrative style and adapts to what each person brings to the room. Her early clinical roles included work at Islington Mind, where she supported people with complex mental health challenges.
Background and approach
She also worked as an associate counsellor at St. Mary’s Hospital, providing therapy for staff in a sexual health clinic. Volunteering at The Listening Place gave her experience with immediate, face-to-face emotional support for people in crisis.
Elizabeth blends several therapeutic perspectives to suit individual needs. She draws on Psychodynamic thinking to look at patterns from the past, Client-Centred principles to follow a person’s priorities, and Cognitive Behavioural techniques for practical coping skills. She is also interested in Existential ideas about meaning, and uses mindfulness and body-aware practices informed by her yoga background.
In sessions she listens for themes, patterns and links that feel important to the person she is talking with. She aims to move at a pace that feels manageable and helpful, matching the approach to each person’s goals. Elizabeth commonly works with anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, depression and life transitions among other concerns.
Her practical focus includes helping people build coping strategies, improve sleep and eating patterns, and manage relationship and identity questions. Sessions are collaborative and tailored, with attention to both feelings and practical next steps.
Approaches that translate to online sessions
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and following your priorities. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps you clarify what matters, which can be useful for anxiety, grief and identity questions.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) offers practical tools to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. It often includes exercises you can try between sessions to improve sleep, manage worry and reduce avoidant patterns.
Mindfulness Therapy brings attention to the present moment and gentle body awareness. This can help calm racing thoughts and build tolerance for strong feelings, and it links well with Elizabeth’s interest in yoga and somatic work.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences and choose or combine methods that suit your situation. That decision is collaborative and can change as you progress.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you hold a more personal conversation with visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins possible and can fit around busy work or family days. These options make it easier to continue therapy even when schedules are tight or travel is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- 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
- 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
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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