Kelly Dynes
Calm practical support for everyday struggles
About Kelly
Kelly Dynes offers support for a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, compassion fatigue, ADHD, addictions, relationship difficulties, grief and parenting challenges. She also helps with anger, self-esteem, career decisions and coping with life changes. Kelly brings a calm, direct manner and listens with empathy to understand each person's situation.
Her approach centres on building a trusting relationship. She believes therapy works when people feel heard and respected.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and practical, aimed at identifying what feels most helpful right now. Kelly combines client-centred listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioural therapy and elements of emotionally-focused work. She also uses mindfulness and trauma-focused techniques when they fit a person’s needs.
This mix lets her tailor sessions to each person rather than using a one-size-fits-all method. Her background includes 11 years of counselling experience and registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She has worked with people affected by trauma, bereavement, anxiety and depression.
Kelly speaks from personal experience as someone who uses a wheelchair, which informs her understanding of living with disability and caring roles. She is experienced supporting people who are neurodivergent and is working towards learning British Sign Language to broaden access to her work. Sessions are offered in English and can be held online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Kelly aims to make therapy straightforward and focused on real change.
What Kelly works with
How Kelly works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches used online and how they help
Kelly blends client-centred work with cognitive behavioural techniques to support people online. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and offering empathic listening so the person feels heard and able to make choices. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical strategies for anxiety, low mood and panic symptoms.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kelly will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that suit those aims. If something does not feel helpful, she adjusts the approach together with the client to find a better fit.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can suit people who prefer writing or want ongoing written support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and mobility needs while keeping the focus on practical progress.
| 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
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dissociation
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
