Kingsley Boateng
Practical, person-focused support for adults
About Kingsley
Kingsley Boateng offers calm, practical support for adults facing stress, anxiety, depression and life changes. He welcomes people dealing with grief, relationship and intimacy problems, identity questions, addiction concerns and issues around self-esteem. Sessions are offered in English and Akan and he works with international clients from the United Kingdom.
He uses a blend of evidence-informed methods to match each person's needs. That can mean looking at unhelpful thinking patterns, developing skills to manage intense emotions, and working on values and meaning.
Background and approach
Conversations are carried out at a steady pace so people do not feel rushed. Kingsley describes his approach as warm, respectful and collaborative. He aims to listen closely so a person feels heard and understood before moving on to practical steps.
Therapy focuses on what a person wants to change and the small, achievable moves that can make daily life easier. He has seven years of clinical experience and holds BACP and NCPS credentials. Those are recorded here exactly as supplied.
His background includes work with a wide range of concerns such as trauma and abuse, ADHD, bipolar and mood difficulties, compassion fatigue and caregiving stress. People often come wanting help to make sense of patterns, build confidence and cope better day to day.
Kingsley supports that process by combining talking, skills practice and gentle challenge so new ways of coping can be learned and used in real life.
What Kingsley works with
How Kingsley works
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Listed by Kingsley among the ways they work.
Listed by Kingsley among the ways they work.
Listed by Kingsley among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
Approaches to change you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on what matters to someone and on taking small actions that match those values to improve daily life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and teaches practical techniques for reducing anxiety, improving sleep and changing unhelpful patterns.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss different methods and decide collaboratively which fit a person's goals, needs and pace. That shared planning helps ensure sessions feel relevant and usable outside therapy.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caring commitments and travel.
| 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
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- 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
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- 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
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English, Akan
