Kay Kimberley
Focused support for addiction and emotional recovery
About Kay
Kay Kimberley provides support for a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. She also helps people facing grief, parenting strain, sleep or eating difficulties, burnout and compassion fatigue, ADHD, bipolar challenges, and career or life transitions. Kay holds BACP accreditation and practises from the United Kingdom.
She has six years in her current therapy role and a long background in mental health and substance misuse settings.
Background and approach
Her style is straightforward and person-focused. Sessions centre on what the client wants to change and on practical steps to get there. Conversations are likely to include exploring feelings, identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, and trying small experiments between sessions.
She aims to make therapy feel manageable for someone juggling family and work demands. Kay draws on client-centred ways of working to build trust and to hear each person's priorities. She uses cognitive behavioural techniques to tackle anxiety, low mood, and problematic behaviours.
Emotion-focused work helps with relationship and attachment issues, while motivational interviewing can support people who want to change addictive behaviours. Her background includes many years in mental health and substance misuse services, with experience of domestic violence, PTSD, personality-related difficulties, gambling and porn addiction, and behavioural stabilisation. This gives a practical understanding of co-occurring problems and complex presentations.
Therapy is available in English and can be provided to international clients. Sessions are offered through flexible online formats to fit different schedules and communication styles.
What Kay works with
How Kay works
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Sessions & fees
How Kay's approaches work online
Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's priorities. It helps people feel heard and shapes sessions around what they want to change or understand about themselves. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions interact. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and habits linked to addiction because it offers clear strategies to try between sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on emotions and attachment patterns in relationships. It can help with intimacy-related problems, attachment issues and recovery after relational trauma. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn't helped in the past, then suggest ways of working to try together. Clients can review and change the plan as therapy progresses. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions may be quicker to arrange or useful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, ongoing reflection or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options give flexibility for different routines and communication styles.| 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
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
