About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Kinsey-James is a counsellor who aims to help people feel steadier when life feels hard. She offers a calm, curious presence and listens without judgement. Her manner is warm and kind and she focuses on building a trusting working relationship from the first session.
She uses a mix of person-centred ideas, psychodynamic thinking and cognitive behavioural tools. That means sessions often start with your immediate concerns and practical goals, while also looking at patterns that come from earlier experiences.
Background and approach
Together you will pick techniques that suit your situation and temperament. Elizabeth trained in London and has four years of clinical experience in online work, therapy clinics and counselling services. She holds BACP accreditation, which is recorded as BACP.
Her background includes helping people with anxiety, depression, grief and stress, as well as relationship, intimacy and parenting concerns. She also supports people facing addiction, sleep problems, career strain and the long-term effects of trauma and abuse. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress.
Sessions aim to be practical and paced to each individual. Sessions are offered in English and are provided using formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. If someone wants to start, they complete a short matching questionnaire and book a time that suits them through the Start Therapy process.
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
Elizabeth combines person-centred ideas with psychodynamic thinking and cognitive behavioural techniques to make online therapy practical and responsive. Person-centred work focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship, helping people feel understood and able to say what matters most. Psychodynamic work looks at how past experiences and early relationships can shape current feelings and reactions, which can help explain recurring patterns. Cognitive behavioural therapy offers specific strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, useful for anxiety, low mood and sleep problems.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with you about your aims and try different methods to see what helps most. Sessions may mix gentle reflection about life history with short practical exercises, and the plan can change as you progress.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging, which make counselling more flexible. Video calls suit a fuller face-to-face feel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer no camera, and chat or messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options help fit therapy around work, family and other commitments while keeping continuity between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- 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 esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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