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Kay Tarry, NCPS
- Credentials
- NCPS
- Experience
- 10 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Trauma and abuseGriefSelf esteemCoping with life changesCoaching
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Kay Tarry helps people facing trauma, grief, low self-esteem, anxiety and stress. She supports those coping with life changes, career worries, relationship strain and issues linked to identity, including LGBT concerns. Kay also helps people navigating anger, depression and family-related challenges.
Kay uses a straightforward, tailored way of working. She listens and asks practical questions. She offers gentle challenges and helps people set achievable goals.
Sessions focus on small steps that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Her practice draws on ten years of experience helping people recover from abuse, neglect, bullying and other traumatic experiences. She has particular experience with attachment issues, abandonment, and people dealing with blended family problems. Kay blends a range of approaches rather than following just one method.
This means sessions are adapted to the person in front of her, using tools from therapies such as acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy where useful. The aim is to match techniques to a person’s needs and strengths.
She also works with people facing chronic pain, long-term illness, cancer, caregiver stress, body image concerns and the challenges of alternative sexual cultures such as BDSM and kink. Practical coping skills, communication strategies and values-based goal setting are common themes in her work. Kay holds NCPS as a credential and practises in the United Kingdom.
Her style is calm and pragmatic, focused on helping people feel less stuck and more able to make positive changes.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people live in line with their values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, stress and making meaningful life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, works by identifying unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns and testing new, practical ways of coping; it often helps with anxiety, low mood and problem-solving. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build safer, more supported ways of relating and communicating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and adapt methods to suit the person’s goals, preferences and everyday life. Together they decide what to try first and review progress as therapy continues.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video sessions are good for face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is low, chat and messaging can suit quick check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or living in a different part of the country, while keeping the focus on practical coping skills and progress.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
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