Kerry Forster
Practical, person-led therapy for everyday struggles
About Kerry
Kerry Forster offers calm, straightforward support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or life changes. She explains things clearly and helps clients find practical ways to cope. Sessions are guided by the person in front of her, so conversations stay relevant to what matters most right now.
Kerry uses a person-centred approach, also called client-centred therapy, which means she follows the client's priorities and pace. She pairs this with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and elements of attachment work when thoughts, patterns or relationships are getting in the way.
Background and approach
The mix is chosen to fit each person rather than follow a single method. Her background includes five years of professional practice and registration with the NCPS. That experience means she has supported people through common difficulties such as depression, grief and anxiety, and with issues linked to self‑esteem, trauma and recovery from abuse.
She also works with concerns around intimacy, sexual expression and identity, including LGBT matters and kink or BDSM conversations. Other focused areas include ADHD, chronic illness, caregiving stress and body image challenges. In sessions Kerry aims to make things easier to talk about and to break problems into manageable steps.
She helps people spot unhelpful thinking and develop new ways of coping. The work is practical, collaborative and grounded in everyday life.
What Kerry works with
How Kerry works
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Sessions & fees
How Kerry’s approaches work online
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. Online sessions use this approach to help people understand relationship patterns and to develop different ways of relating to others and themselves.Client-centred therapy means conversations are led by the person seeking help. In practice this looks like listening without judgement, reflecting what the client says and following their pace to explore what matters most to them.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and problems such as sleep or eating concerns, and transfers well to video and phone sessions where tasks and practice can be set between meetings.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Kerry will discuss options and help the client decide what fits best based on their goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process that can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions use less bandwidth; live chat can suit shorter check-ins; and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the focus on practical coping and steady 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
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- 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
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
