About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Kinsey-James is a BACP counsellor who helps people dealing with stress and anxiety. She creates a calm, warm space where people can talk through worries and feel heard. Her manner is gentle and curious, aimed at making it easier to take the first steps into therapy.
She focuses on building a strong working relationship in the room. That relationship is used to look at current problems and how past experiences might affect them.
Background and approach
Elizabeth blends person-centred ideas with psychodynamic thinking and practical cognitive behavioural techniques, choosing what fits each person. In practical terms this means she listens for patterns from childhood and relationships, and also offers small exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Sessions tend to feel conversational but are guided by clear goals you agree together.
She pays attention to emotions, attachment, and how daily habits influence wellbeing. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including relationships, grief, self-esteem, addiction, trauma, sleeping difficulties, parenting strains and work stress. She also supports people facing life changes, chronic health challenges, body image and issues linked to attachment and abandonment.
Elizabeth trained in London and has around four years of professional experience working both online and in clinics. She practises in the United Kingdom and carries the BACP credential, which she uses as part of her professional framework.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Elizabeth uses a blend of person-centred work and cognitive behavioural techniques to help people online. Person-centred work focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so someone can explore their feelings and find their own answers. Cognitive behavioural therapy identifies unhelpful thoughts and behaviour patterns and offers practical strategies to change them, which can help with anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Elizabeth will work with each person to decide whether more reflective psychodynamic work, supportive person-centred sessions, or targeted CBT exercises are the best fit for their goals and situation. That choice can change over time as needs evolve.
Online therapy with her can take place via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual connection helps the conversation, phone works well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can suit ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caring duties and daily life while keeping the same therapeutic approach.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder 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
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- 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 esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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