Kathleen Kingsley-Hughes
Compassionate person-centred counsellor
About Kathleen
Kathleen Kingsley-Hughes welcomes people seeking help with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma and addiction. She also supports those struggling with sleep, eating and self-esteem, and people coping with major life changes such as career shifts, parenting challenges and caregiving stress. Kathleen works with concerns related to ADHD, compassion fatigue and a wide range of attachment and relationship issues.
Kathleen practises in a calm, non-judgemental way and places the person at the centre of the work.
Background and approach
She uses a person-centred stance where the client leads and she accompanies. That means sessions focus on what matters to the individual and on building self-understanding and self-compassion. Her approach draws on several methods to suit different needs.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps with unhelpful thoughts and behaviour patterns. Mindfulness-based work supports present-moment awareness and reduces stress. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Kathleen also offers coaching for wellbeing and creativity, and uses techniques that pay attention to the body and felt sense. She teaches trauma-sensitive mindfulness and self-compassion, and brings these practices into the sessions when helpful. Sessions can include practical strategies as well as reflective exploration.
She holds BACP as a professional credential and has six years' experience working with a range of concerns. Kathleen aims to help people notice their patterns, develop kinder ways of relating to themselves, and take manageable steps towards change.
What Kathleen works with
How Kathleen works
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current ways of relating. Online sessions can be used to notice patterns in relationships and try different ways of connecting and responding in everyday life. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns, which can be practised between sessions and reviewed online. Mindfulness-based work trains present-moment attention and simple practices to calm the nervous system and build tolerance for difficult feelings. Finding the right mix of approaches is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and practical needs and together agree which methods to try first, then adapt as the work progresses. That collaborative decision-making helps ensure the approach fits the person rather than the other way around. Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and body language while phone sessions can be easier if bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit those who prefer typing, want to reflect between messages, or need a flexible way to fit therapy around work or caring duties. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of support and to practise new skills between sessions.| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
