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Kingsley Boateng, BACP, NCPS
- Credentials
- BACP, NCPS
- Experience
- 7 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English, Akan
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Stress, AnxietyLGBTRelationship issuesGriefCoping with life changes
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Kingsley Boateng offers calm, direct support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or big life changes. He writes simply and listens carefully so people feel heard from the first session. Kingsley works at a pace you set and aims to make therapy understandable and practical.
He draws on seven years of practice using approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Attachment-Based Therapy.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on spotting unhelpful patterns, learning straightforward skills, and trying small changes between meetings. Kingsley uses a warm, collaborative style and treats identity and culture as part of the work. People come for many reasons including relationship strain, grief, trauma, sexual identity questions, addiction, eating and sleeping problems, parenting stresses, anger, and work-related burnout.
He also supports concerns around ADHD, bipolar and long-term health conditions. The aim is to help people make clearer choices and build reliable coping strategies. Sessions are offered in English and Akan and Kingsley works with clients in the United Kingdom and internationally.
He is registered with BACP and NCPS, which are listed credentials. Therapy can be done by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different routines. To begin, users complete a short matching questionnaire and choose a time that fits.
The process is straightforward so people can focus on their goals rather than logistics.
How this therapist uses different approaches online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood and navigating major life changes because it focuses on small, value-led steps.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand why they respond in certain ways and build more supported ways of relating to others. This can be useful when working on intimacy, loss or ongoing relationship difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss what feels most helpful and adapt methods to your goals and pace. Sessions are a collaborative process where techniques are tested and adjusted over time.
Online therapy here can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging depending on practical needs. Video is useful for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is handy for shorter check-ins, and messaging suits people who prefer writing between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, travel or family commitments.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- 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
- 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 conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- 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
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English, Akan
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