About Kerry
Kerry Hyland is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people manage stress, anxiety, phobias and low mood. She works with a wide range of concerns including trauma, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and coping with life changes. Her approach aims to be warm and down-to-earth so people feel heard from the first session.
Kerry adapts the way she works to each person’s needs. Some clients use cognitive behavioural ideas to tackle anxious thoughts and behaviours.
Background and approach
Others focus on acceptance-based work, mindful practices, or attachment-based conversations to rebuild trust and connection. She keeps explanations simple and practical so people can use strategies between sessions. Her background includes ten years of client-facing roles in schools, GP surgery settings and university counselling services.
She has also worked as a mental health recovery worker in the community, which informed her understanding of long-term conditions and diverse mental health needs. This range of settings shapes how she supports people in everyday life. Kerry runs a personal psychotherapy practice alongside her university role and offers tailored workshops on wellbeing.
She is especially interested in helping people who feel they have lost their voice to find ways to express themselves more clearly. Clients can expect a calm, non-judgemental presence and practical steps to move forward. She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, which is shown as BACP.
Sessions are offered in English and Kerry accepts international clients for online work.
How Kerry’s approaches translate to online therapy
Kerry uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and focus on meaningful action. This approach supports issues like anxiety, phobias and low mood by building flexible coping skills rather than trying to remove every uncomfortable thought.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviours. CBT work is useful for tackling avoidance, sleep problems and many kinds of anxiety, and it often produces practical steps people can try between sessions.
Finding the right blend of approaches is part of the work. Kerry will discuss goals and preferences and together decide which methods fit best. The plan can change as progress is made, keeping the focus on what helps the individual feel steadier and more in control.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and exercises, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can suit short check-ins or flexible schedules. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caring responsibilities and travel, while still allowing therapists and registered or accredited professionals to use ACT and CBT techniques effectively.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- 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)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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