About Kayan
Kayan Houssein is a counsellor working across the United Kingdom who helps people facing anxiety, stress and depression. He provides short- and longer-term work for those dealing with relationship strain, grief, addiction, or major life changes. He aims to create a straightforward, collaborative space where people can talk through what feels hard and begin to make practical changes.
He works from an integrative-relational viewpoint, which means he blends different therapeutic ideas and places the relationship between counsellor and client at the centre of the work.
Background and approach
He describes therapy as a joint process where the client’s experience guides the sessions and the counsellor offers support and tools. Kayan also brings a trauma-aware outlook to sessions and pays attention to how difficult experiences affect both body and mind.
This includes helping people notice patterns linked to attachment, loss, or past harm and finding ways to respond differently to those patterns. He trained in psychology and completed a diploma in integrative counselling, and he is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
He has four years of clinical experience and has worked with people who experience bipolar and psychosis in organisational settings. In sessions he mixes practical techniques with open conversation. That can mean identifying unhelpful thinking, trying small experiments, exploring personal meaning, and working on clearer communication.
The overall aim is to help people feel steadier and more in charge of day-to-day life.
Approaches that shape online work
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds affect present relationships and emotional responses. It can help people understand patterns of closeness, distance and fear of abandonment and try small changes in the way they relate to others.Client-centred practice focuses on listening closely and following the client’s lead. The counsellor reflects what is said, offers empathy and helps people find their own answers when they are ready to make changes.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with more helpful ways of responding. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and practical problems that benefit from step-by-step work.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy journey. Kayan will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s goals, needs and preferences. That may mean drawing on more than one approach and adjusting as progress is made.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face without travel, phone sessions use less data and can fit into a work break, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging allows step-by-step reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while working with a registered professional across the United Kingdom.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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