Denise Kerr
Experienced integrative psychotherapist
About Denise
Denise Kerr draws on fifteen years working in mental health to support people through difficult life moments. She holds a BACP credential and trained in psychology and psychotherapy, which shape a thoughtful and flexible way of working. Denise aims to offer a calm, listening space where clients can talk through what matters to them.
She meets each person as an individual and adapts her approach to their needs. Her practice uses a blend of therapeutic approaches so sessions are practical and personal.
Background and approach
Denise helps people with stress, anxiety and mood difficulties, including seasonal affective disorder. She also supports those facing grief, low self-esteem and relationship problems, and people coping with loss, abandonment or separation. Denise works with issues arising at work and in the everyday world, such as career worries, workplace tensions and social anxiety.
She also addresses deeper patterns linked to attachment, trauma and self-harm. Therapy can include coaching-style conversations for people wanting personal development alongside emotional healing. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Denise uses a client-centred stance that encourages people to lead the pace of work while introducing tools where helpful. The goal is clearer thinking, steadier mood and better ways to manage challenges. Practical matters are discussed openly in early sessions so people know what to expect.
Denise supports people as they try new ways of coping and notices progress together along the way.
What Denise works with
How Denise works
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Listed by Denise among the ways they work.
Listed by Denise among the ways they work.
Listed by Denise among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
How Denise’s approaches translate to online work
Denise draws on attachment-based work and cognitive behavioural approaches to help people understand patterns and change unhelpful habits. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current connections and helps people notice and adjust repeating patterns in relationships. Cognitive behavioural therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers straightforward tools to test and change unhelpful thinking.She also uses a client-centred stance that gives the person room to lead sessions while the counsellor reflects and clarifies. Finding the right approach is a joint process. Denise will talk with each person about their goals and try different ways of working until there is a good fit, adjusting methods as needs and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be useful when bandwidth is low, live chat works for shorter check-ins and text messaging suits people who prefer writing. These options give flexibility for people balancing work, family and travel while working through emotional issues.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
