About Kirsty
Kirsty Waite is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience and a BACP registration. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed, anxious, stuck, or who are navigating difficult life changes. Kirsty aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can speak freely and be heard.
She draws on several approaches to shape sessions around each person’s needs. Kirsty uses client-centred listening to follow what matters to the client.
Background and approach
She also brings in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas and emotion-focused techniques when these match the issue at hand. Kirsty has supported people with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She also helps with trauma and abuse, sleeping problems, panic, relationship worries, career strain and compassion fatigue.
Additional areas she works with include abandonment, attachment issues, chronic illness and caregiver stress, guilt and shame, isolation and life-purpose concerns. Her style is collaborative and paced to the individual. Sessions can be structured when useful, or gentler and exploratory depending on preference.
Kirsty says people remain the experts in their own lives and she helps them make sense of difficult feelings and find practical ways to move forward. Sessions are offered in English and can be arranged online through video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. International clients may be supported.
To begin, clients use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
How Kirsty adapts therapeutic approaches for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that reflect their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and when life changes feel overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns; it often helps with panic, low mood and sleeping problems. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to early relationship patterns and how they shape current ways of relating and feeling, which can help with abandonment worries and relationship difficulties.Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Kirsty will work with each person to decide which methods suit their goals and preferences. She checks in about what feels useful and adapts the focus as progress is made or new concerns arise.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and use of visual material, phone sessions suit people who prefer not to be on camera, live chat can be a shorter check-in or help people who process better in writing, and text messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or mobility needs while keeping the therapeutic work consistent and focused.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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