About Kay
Kay Kimberley is a counsellor with six years of therapy practice and a broader 20-year background in mental health and substance misuse settings. She supports people facing anxiety and stress, and those coping with addiction and its overlap with other mental health concerns. Kay works with individual adults and offers a steady, practical style in sessions.
Her approach is straightforward and people-focused. She listens first to what matters to the individual and then helps them set achievable goals.
Background and approach
Conversations are aimed at understanding patterns and building small, useful changes that fit everyday life. Kay draws on methods such as cognitive behavioural techniques to address unhelpful thinking and emotionally focused ideas to improve connection and emotional regulation. Motivational interviewing helps when someone is unsure about change, and trauma-informed work supports those with difficult past experiences.
She has experience in addiction, domestic violence, post-traumatic stress, personality difficulties, gambling and sexual behaviour problems, ADHD, and behavioural stabilisation. She also supports people dealing with grief, relationship strain, work stress, sleep and eating problems, and low self-esteem. Kay is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP.
Sessions are offered in English and she works with people across the United Kingdom and internationally. Practical options include video, phone, chat and messaging to suit different needs.
How Kay’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and creating a supportive space where people feel heard. It helps with low self-esteem, grief and the general strain of life by prioritising the person's own goals and pace.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It breaks problems into small parts and teaches practical techniques for anxiety, sleep problems and unhelpful behaviours.
Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding and reducing the impact of past hurt. It uses careful, paced work to help people manage difficult memories and improve day-to-day functioning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options with the person and choose methods together based on needs, goals and preferences. This collaborative route means techniques can be adapted as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat and text messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone can work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits brief check-ins or ongoing written support. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping sessions consistent and practical.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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