Kerry Atkins
Warm, practical support for stress and loss
About Kerry
Kerry Atkins helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, trauma and loss. She also supports people dealing with grief, parenting strain, eating and sleeping struggles, low self-esteem, career challenges and the effects of long-term illness. Kerry works with concerns related to ADHD, bipolar mood difficulties, intimacy and sexual wellbeing, and issues around adoption, attachment and ageing.
Kerry is a counsellor and psychotherapist in the United Kingdom with three years of experience.
Background and approach
She holds BACP which indicates membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. Her work draws on practical methods rather than jargon. Sessions often include breathing exercises, somatic body work and guided meditation to help connect feelings in the body with thoughts and actions.
Her style is warm and straightforward. Kerry aims to make the first steps feel less daunting and to offer steady support as people talk through difficult material. She combines client-centred listening with cognitive and emotion-focused techniques to suit each person’s needs.
In session Kerry pays attention to the impact of past experiences on present relationships and everyday coping. She offers gentle challenges when useful and works collaboratively to set achievable goals. Therapy is tailored so people can build resilience while noticing small changes in how they respond to stress and loss.
Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Kerry asks people to use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to her availability.
What Kerry works with
How Kerry works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches suited to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and taking small steps towards the life someone wants, which can help with anxiety, depression and coping with life changes.Emotionally-Focused Therapy supports people to identify, name and make sense of strong emotions that shape relationships and self-worth. It can be useful for navigating attachment issues, intimacy challenges and longstanding patterns that cause distress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals and preferences, and then suggest ways of working together. Decisions are collaborative and can change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video calls let people use body language and tone, phone sessions need less bandwidth and are simple to fit into a work break, while text or chat can be useful for short check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep regular sessions and to choose a format that matches day-to-day life.
| 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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
