About Kerry
Kerry Atkins is a counsellor and psychotherapist practising in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP accreditation and has three years of experience. Kerry offers calm, direct support for stress, anxiety, grief and relationship concerns.
She also works with trauma, depression, LGBT issues and phobias. Kerry says starting therapy can feel frightening and vulnerable. She aims to make the first sessions gentle and straightforward.
The focus is on helping people feel heard and on building small steps towards change.
Background and approach
Her sessions draw on a mix of approaches chosen for each person's needs. Kerry uses cognitive and acceptance-based ideas alongside attachment-focused work. Practical tools such as breathing exercises, somatic body work and guided meditation are used in-session to strengthen mind-body connection.
Kerry often explores how past experiences affect present patterns. She balances listening with gentle challenges to help people try new responses. Goals are shaped together so work feels relevant and manageable.
She has particular interest in anxiety, loss of a pet and men’s mental health, while supporting a wide range of concerns including eating and sleeping, parenting, career and coping with life changes. Kerry offers phone, video, live chat and text-based messaging as ways to connect for therapy.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and decide on values-based actions. It is useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes because it teaches practical ways to act even when feelings are hard.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns. It helps people understand connection, trust and communication difficulties in relationships and can reduce repeating old relational habits.
Kerry will work with the client to find the best mix of approaches. Deciding what fits is a collaborative process that takes account of the client’s goals, current difficulties and preferences. The therapist will suggest methods and review progress together so the plan can change as needed.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and travel. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions can be simpler when internet is limited, and live chat or text messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options offer flexibility and steady access to support without needing a commute.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- 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
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- 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
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- 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
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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