Kathleen Kingsley-Hughes, BACP

Kathleen Kingsley-Hughes welcomes people who are feeling stressed, anxious, low in confidence, grieving, or struggling with relationship and parenting concerns. She also supports those managing trauma, addictions, sleep problems, eating issues, ADHD, and career transitions. Kathleen works warmly and without judgement to help people notice what is happening for them and begin to take small steps forward.

Kathleen is a BACP counsellor. She uses a person-centred style that puts the client in the lead while she sits alongside as a supportive companion. Conversations are calm and mindful, focused on helping people understand their patterns and develop more self-compassion.

She combines person-centred work with other ways of helping, including attachment-based ideas, mindfulness practice, cognitive behavioural techniques and hypnotherapy. Sessions often include attention to bodily experience and felt sense to surface what is happening in the moment.

People sometimes come for short-term coaching around goals such as motivation, creativity or wellbeing. Kathleen also offers longer-term therapy for those who want to explore inner patterns and emotional history in more depth.

Kathleen has about six years of professional experience. She teaches trauma-sensitive mindfulness and self-compassion, and uses coaching skills when helpful to set goals and build practical steps toward them.

She works in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation. Sessions are conducted in English and arrangements for how to meet should be confirmed before booking.

How Kathleen's approaches translate to online work

Many clients seek help for anxiety, stress, grief, trauma and low self-esteem, and Kathleen uses person-centred work alongside attachment-based thinking and cognitive behavioural ideas to support them. Person-centred work focuses on the client's own priorities and strengths, offering non-judgemental listening and reflection to help people find their own solutions. Attachment-based ideas look at patterns in relationships and how past connections influence current feelings and behaviour, which can be helpful for relationship worries and attachment issues. Cognitive behavioural approaches focus on noticing thoughts and behaviours, testing them and trying small changes to reduce anxiety and improve sleep or mood.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. Kathleen will talk with each person about their needs, goals and preferences, and together they decide which combination of approaches to try. Sessions can include practical exercises, mindfulness practice and exploration of bodily experience according to what the client finds useful.

Please confirm available session formats before booking, as the biography does not list them explicitly. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people use mindfulness exercises and homework between sessions, so therapy can fit into everyday routines.