About Kirsty
Kirsty Waite is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She holds BACP registration and has three years of professional experience supporting people through anxiety, stress, grief and life changes. Kirsty aims to create a calm space where someone can feel heard and begin to make sense of difficult feelings.
Kirsty offers an integrative approach and adapts sessions to each person's needs. She draws on client-centred work to listen deeply and build trust.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioural methods are used when practical tools for managing thoughts and behaviour are helpful. She also brings Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas to help people notice their values and take small steps toward them. Attachment-based thinking is used to look at how early relationships shape how people connect now.
Emotion-focused work helps when emotions feel overwhelming and need naming and processing. Kirsty has over 600 clinical hours and personal experience as a carer, which informs her understanding of caregiver stress and chronic illness. She supports people coping with relationship tensions, commitment worries, panic attacks, low self-esteem and career or sleeping difficulties.
Sessions with Kirsty are collaborative and paced to the person. She aims to balance flexibility with structure, offering practical strategies alongside time to reflect. People who want a listening ear and clear ways forward may find this approach useful.
Therapy approaches explained and available online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy encourages noticing thoughts and feelings without fighting them, then choosing small actions that match personal values; it can help with anxiety, stress and decisions about what matters. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy focusses on the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical exercises to reduce panic attacks, low mood and unhelpful thinking patterns. Client-Centred Therapy provides a warm, non-judgemental space where the person leads the conversation and the counsellor reflects and listens to help make sense of experiences.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kirsty uses these methods flexibly and will help people decide what fits best based on their goals and preferences. The choice of technique is collaborative and may change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual connection, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can work for shorter check-ins or for those who prefer not to be on camera. These options make therapy more flexible for people juggling work, caregiving or travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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