About Kerry
Kerry Griggs is a counsellor who helps people struggling with anxiety, stress, depression and relationship difficulties. She also supports those facing grief, low self-esteem, life changes and issues related to sexuality and identity. Kerry offers a calm, non-judgemental presence and encourages clients to find their own strengths for change.
Kerry works from a person-centred stance where the client leads the conversation and their experience is respected. She believes people know much about their own lives and that a compassionate listener can help them hear that inner knowledge.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to make painful feelings easier to understand rather than push them away. Her practical approach mixes talking with optional embodied methods such as breathwork, self-massage, movement or art, for clients who find those helpful. Kerry also draws on other methods when they suit the person, including acceptance and commitment ideas and cognitive behavioural techniques to support coping and decision making.
She pays attention to how past experiences and current pressures shape reactions today. That might include childhood events, losses, social expectations or the stresses of daily life. The goal is to make those reactions make sense so new choices can be tried.
Kerry welcomes a diverse range of people and offers a respectful space where identity is not questioned. She aims to support clients to become more able to cope, make decisions and express themselves in ways they could not before. To begin, she invites people to talk about what matters to them now and what they want to work towards.
How Kerry’s approaches adapt to online therapy
The work often draws on acceptance and commitment ideas and emotionally focused ways of working. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and supports choosing actions that match personal values. Emotionally focused therapy (EFT) concentrates on understanding emotions in relationships and building more helpful ways to connect and respond.Finding the right approach is part of the process and Kerry treats it as a collaboration. She will listen to what you need, try different methods and agree together which tools to use. That means goals, preferences and how you respond guide the choices rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video is useful when non-verbal cues and eye contact help the work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflection or people who like writing as part of therapy. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family and travel commitments while keeping continuity of care with a registered or accredited professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- 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
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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