About Kathleen
Kathleen Kingsley-Hughes is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem and relationship concerns. She works with clients experiencing trauma, sleeping problems, addictions and parenting stress. Kathleen also supports people dealing with life transitions such as career changes, ageing, and coping with ADHD-related challenges.
Kathleen uses a warm, accepting style and believes people know their own story best. She places the client at the centre of sessions and offers calm, non-judgemental listening.
Background and approach
This approach aims to help people notice patterns and begin to respond differently to difficult thoughts and feelings. Alongside a client-centred stance, Kathleen draws on attachment-based thinking to understand how relationships shape experience. She also uses cognitive behavioural ideas for practical steps to manage anxiety and mood.
Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to help people notice the present moment and reduce reactivity. Her background includes work with people facing trauma and with those adjusting to major life changes. Kathleen blends talking therapy with body-aware methods to help clients connect with how emotions show up physically.
She also offers coaching for wellbeing, creativity and life goals when people want practical support alongside therapy. Kathleen is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She works in the United Kingdom and runs sessions in English.
Her style is steady, compassionate and focused on helping people build self-compassion and everyday coping skills.
How Kathleen’s approaches work online
Kathleen often blends client-centred listening with attachment-based ideas to help people understand how past relationships affect their feelings today. Client-centred work means the counsellor follows the client’s pace and priorities, offering gentle reflection and support as people talk through what matters to them. Attachment-focused work looks at patterns in relating and can help with anxiety, intimacy worries and responses to loss.She also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try small, practical experiments. CBT-style steps can be useful for reducing anxiety, improving sleep, and managing low mood. Together, these methods aim to combine compassionate listening with straightforward coping strategies and moment-to-moment awareness.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Kathleen works collaboratively to find what fits a person’s goals and preferences, and she will adjust methods as therapy progresses. Clients and counsellor decide together which techniques to try and when to change direction.
Online sessions offer flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging suits people who prefer typed reflection or want support between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- 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
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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