Counsellor profile
Kelly Richardson, BACP
United Kingdom
BACP counsellor - Anger and stress support
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- CredentialsBACP
- RegistrationBACP, United Kingdom / 90923
- Experience11 years
- LanguagesEnglish
- LocationUnited Kingdom
About
- Client-centred approach
- CBT techniques
- Mindfulness tools
About Kelly
Kelly Richardson is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 11 years of experience. She works with stress, anxiety, grief, low mood, relationship and parenting concerns, career pressures and anger. She also supports people dealing with self-esteem issues and life changes.
Kelly practises mainly from a person-centred stance, focusing on the relationship in the room and helping people find their own answers. She combines that with practical techniques when helpful, such as cognitive behavioural strategies to spot and shift unhelpful thinking. Mindfulness and solution-focused ideas are used to build coping skills and short-term plans.
Her background includes work with police and emergency services staff, and experience with loss and bereavement through Cruse Bereavement Care. She has worked within an Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) initiative supporting anxiety and depression, and she is an affiliate counsellor for several employee assistance programmes addressing work-related stress.
Kelly has completed core counselling training at the University of Hull and Leeds Beckett University and maintains ongoing professional development. She holds BACP accreditation which indicates she meets the association's standards for ethical practice and professional development.
Sessions have previously been offered by telephone, video and live chat. If you want practical strategies to manage anger, or steadier ways to cope with stress and difficult feelings, she will work with you to identify what helps and to plan next steps.
How sessions work
How Kelly uses practical approaches in online sessions
Kelly draws on client-centred work alongside cognitive behavioural and mindfulness approaches. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, reflecting and creating the conditions for someone to find their own solutions. It is useful when someone wants a steady, non-directive space to talk through frustration or ongoing worry.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions. It offers clear, short-term strategies to test and change unhelpful thinking patterns that fuel anger, anxiety or low mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that help reduce reactivity and improve moment-to-moment coping.
Finding the right mix is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the client to decide which approaches suit their goals and preferences, and may blend person-centred listening with CBT tasks or mindfulness exercises as needed.
Session formats listed in her background include telephone, video and live chat, but confirm the options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions around work or family routines, allow shorter check-ins when required, and reduce travel time. Registered or accredited professionals often use these formats to help people build steady ways of managing anger and stress without changing other commitments.
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Experience
11+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English
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What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and parenting issues, career pressures, self-esteem and anger among other areas.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses a person-centred approach that prioritises the counselling relationship and combines it with practical techniques such as CBT, mindfulness and solution-focused tools.
How much experience does she have?
She has 11 years of experience working with clients and with organisations such as Cruse Bereavement Care and IAPT services.
What professional credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and practises in the United Kingdom.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Her profile notes telephone, video and live chat as formats she has used; confirm current session options before booking.
How are sessions charged?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What should I do to get started?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is unsafe, use the crisis numbers.