About Kelly
Kelly Punton is a counsellor who uses practical, person-focused approaches to help people facing stress, anxiety and difficult life events. She holds NCPS and has five years of experience supporting people through grief, low self-esteem and major life changes. Kelly aims to make the first step easier and encourages people who are nervous about starting therapy to be gentle with themselves.
Kelly creates a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk about painful experiences.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on understanding what matters to the client and on small, achievable steps forward. She listens for patterns that keep people stuck and helps them try different ways of responding. Her work draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values, and on cognitive behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and test them in daily life.
She also uses client-centred ways of working so conversations feel led by the person in the room, and trauma-informed tools when past hurts are part of the picture. Clients often bring relationship difficulties, parenting strain, eating or body image concerns, work stress and feelings of isolation. Kelly also supports people dealing with grief, bereavement and career transitions.
She pays attention to practical coping skills alongside longer term goals. Kelly offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Sessions sit within a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts without being driven by them, and then take committed steps towards what matters. It can help with anxiety, low mood and meaning-based goals. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) teaches practical techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and to test new behaviours in everyday life, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Client-Centred Therapy puts the person's perspective first, creating a supportive space where clients feel heard and can find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kelly will discuss different methods with each person and decide together which ones fit best. That conversation takes into account the client's goals, past experiences and what feels most useful in practice, so the plan evolves over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when needed, phone sessions can be easier when audio only is preferred, and messaging or live chat suit short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and day-to-day life while keeping the therapeutic focus steady.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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