About Kingsley
Kingsley Boateng is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people manage anxiety, stress and life transitions. He offers a welcoming, respectful space for people who feel stuck, overwhelmed or unsure where to begin. Sessions are collaborative and paced to what each person needs.
He uses a blend of practical approaches. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, mindfulness and humanistic ideas inform his work. That combination helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try small changes and build day-to-day coping skills.
Background and approach
Kingsley also provides affirming support for LGBTQIA+ people and those exploring identity and relationships. He aims to create a place where a person can talk openly about their values, culture and personal story without judgement. Over seven years he has supported people dealing with grief, trauma, low self-esteem, addictions and difficulties with intimacy.
He also works with common life issues such as sleeping and eating problems, career worries and burnout. Clients often focus on building confidence and emotional resilience. Sessions can be delivered in English or Akan, and Kingsley accepts international clients.
He draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and other approaches to tailor support to individual goals and circumstances.
Therapeutic approaches and online therapy that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, values-driven steps. It mixes practical exercises with mindfulness to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour, using simple strategies to shift unhelpful thinking and try new coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps rebuild safer ways of relating and feeling supported.Kingsley treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. He will talk through your goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together you decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as you go, so the work stays relevant to your life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, allowing flexibility around work, travel or daily commitments. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can be handy for shorter check-ins or busy days. These options make it easier to fit regular therapy into a hectic schedule while still working on anxiety, grief, identity and other concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
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
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- 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)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Akan
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