About Kirstie
Kirstie Beckman is a counsellor registered with the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists (BACP). She has five years' experience helping adults think through anxiety, low mood and relationship problems. Her manner is warm and non-judgemental, and she opens a calm space for people to talk at their own pace.
Kirstie adapts sessions to each person rather than using one fixed method. She pays attention to how past events and unmet needs can still shape current feelings and behaviour.
Background and approach
This helps people notice repeating patterns and make different choices. Sessions focus on improving self-understanding and emotional regulation. Kirstie works on building self-compassion and reconnecting people with their values.
Practical steps and small experiments between sessions are used to test new ways of coping. She also supports people with grief, parenting strain, career stress, eating and body image concerns, and intimacy-related issues. Phobias are listed among her areas of interest and may be explored in sessions when relevant.
Therapy is delivered in a collaborative way. Kirstie aims to help people feel steadier and clearer about their next steps, whether that means managing day-to-day stress or working through deeper relationship patterns.
How Kirstie works online with client-centred and CBT ideas
Client-Centred Therapy is an approach that focuses on the person's own perspective. The counsellor listens without judgement and helps people make sense of their feelings. This approach is useful for building self-worth, exploring identity, and recovering from relationship hurts.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to shift unhelpful thinking and reduce anxiety or low mood. CBT tools can help with phobias, worry and everyday coping strategies.
Finding the right way of working is part of the therapy. Kirstie will discuss goals and preferences and try different approaches together. The pace and focus are decided collaboratively so sessions feel relevant and doable.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use body language and visual cues, phone calls suit lower bandwidth, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging works for ongoing written support. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments, and to choose whichever format feels most comfortable.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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