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Kerry Atkins, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 3 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseGriefDepression
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Kerry Atkins is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She has three years of clinical experience and helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief and trauma. Kerry also supports clients with relationship and intimacy-related issues, family and attachment concerns, and challenges such as ADHD and compassion fatigue.
Her way of working is gentle and practical. She offers a calm space to talk about painful experiences and looks at how past events affect life now.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on building resilience and finding small, usable steps that make day-to-day life easier. Kerry draws on several evidence-informed approaches including acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-based thinking, client-centred conversation, cognitive behavioural techniques and emotionally-focused work. She blends talking, simple breathing exercises, somatic body work and guided meditation to help people reconnect with their bodies and feelings.
People come to Kerry for a mix of emotional relief and clear goals. She can help with sleep problems, eating and body image concerns, career stress, parenting strains and coping with major life changes. She also works with issues linked to chronic illness, caregiving stress and bereavement.
Her style is non-judgemental and approachable. Kerry offers practical challenges when helpful, alongside warmth and understanding. She invites people to take one courageous step at a time toward a more manageable life.
How Kerry blends therapeutic approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and refocus on what matters to them. It uses simple exercises to build psychological flexibility and is often used for anxiety, low mood and coping with life changes. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape present connections and can help people who struggle with trust, intimacy or family patterns. Client-centred therapy puts the person at the heart of the work, offering a listening, non-judgemental space where the client leads the pace and topics.Kerry treats finding the right approach as a teamwork process. She listens to what you want to achieve, discusses options and adapts methods to match your needs and preferences. Decisions about techniques and pace are made together rather than imposed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, which provide practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions suit people with lower bandwidth or who prefer no camera, live chat offers a quicker check-in and text messaging supports shorter or ongoing contact between sessions. These options help fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the focus on meaningful change.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- 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
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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