About Kirsty
Kirsty Black is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with four years of professional counselling experience and a background in long-term support roles. She holds NCPS credentials and a BA (HONS) in Counselling, and is currently studying for an MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Kirsty describes herself as neurodivergent-affirming and aims to offer respectful, compassionate care.
Kirsty uses an integrative style, drawing on several practical methods to match the needs of each person.
Background and approach
Sessions often include talking therapy, simple behavioural techniques, and creative activities when these help a client communicate or process feelings. She emphasises collaboration and tailors tools to the situation rather than following a single fixed method. Parents and adults who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, or relationship strain will find straightforward, goal-focused conversations.
Kirsty lists phobias among areas she supports, alongside ADHD, depression, addictions and other concerns. She also works with issues around identity, intimacy and parenting challenges. Her background includes counselling in charities, schools, universities and independent practice, and she brings 16 years of experience in support roles to her clinical work.
That mix shapes a practical approach that aims to be down-to-earth and easy to understand. Kirsty offers online and telephone sessions, plus live chat and text-based messaging. To get started clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to availability.
How Kirsty adapts therapeutic approaches for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and to focus on actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, stress and life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and uses practical exercises to change patterns that cause distress, which can help with phobias, low mood and sleep problems. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how past and present relationships affect current feelings and reactions, and can be helpful for relationship strain, intimacy issues and attachment concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kirsty will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what has helped or not helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds, so therapy feels collaborative rather than prescribed.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit people who prefer writing or need brief check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counselling around family, work and daily life while still using the chosen therapeutic tools.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- 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
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- 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
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- 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)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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