About Kathleen
Kathleen Kingsley-Hughes is a counsellor who focuses on anxiety, stress and related worries. She aims to meet people where they are and offer calm, warm, non-judgemental support. Kathleen encourages clients to notice their strengths and to take the lead in sessions while she listens and reflects alongside them.
Her style is rooted in client-centred work, which means the person’s experience guides the pace and topics. She combines that with mindfulness and body-aware practices to help people notice how emotions show up in their bodies.
Background and approach
This makes discussions feel practical and grounded rather than abstract. Kathleen uses a range of approaches to suit different needs. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Cognitive behavioural techniques are used when helpful to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. She also offers hypnotherapy and mindfulness methods for stress, sleep and anxiety concerns. She has six years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Her background includes work supporting people with grief, trauma, addictions, parenting changes, ageing and career transitions. Kathleen also offers coaching for wellbeing, life direction and creative goals. Sessions aim to build self-compassion and clearer self-understanding.
Kathleen often helps people explore present-moment experience and the body’s felt sense as a route to change. Her approach can suit those wanting short-term practical tools or longer-term exploration of inner patterns.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Kathleen uses client-centred therapy to keep the client’s experience at the heart of sessions. That means the person sets the pace and topics while the counsellor listens, reflects and offers support tailored to what comes up. This approach helps people feel heard and able to steer their own change.She also works with mindfulness techniques to help people notice thoughts, feelings and body sensations in the present moment. Mindfulness can reduce rumination and help with sleep, anxiety and stress by teaching practical attention skills. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used when useful to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns that maintain anxiety and low mood.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try different ways of working and agree what feels most helpful based on a person’s goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video suits face-to-face style conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins or more regular written support. These options help fit therapy around work, family life and mobility needs while keeping the focus on the therapeutic relationship.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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