Lisa Kinsella
Person centred counsellor for trauma and relationships
About Lisa
Lisa Kinsella helps people who are struggling with relationship problems, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, anxiety, low mood and a wide range of life challenges. She also supports those facing grief, addiction concerns, issues with intimacy, ADHD-related difficulties, and stress linked to work or caregiving.
Lisa's approach is warm and human, and she aims to create a place where people feel heard and respected. Her style is centred on the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Sessions are client led, so the focus and pace come from the individual’s needs. Lisa uses Client-Centred Therapy to listen carefully, Solution-Focused Therapy to identify practical steps forward, and Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, when trauma work is needed. She has six years of professional experience and holds registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - BACP.
That background has included work in alternative education settings where she supported people with additional learning needs and those who had left mainstream schooling for personal reasons. She has also worked with people affected by domestic abuse and by difficult relational patterns such as narcissistic behaviour. Sessions can be arranged in the evenings by request.
Lisa welcomes conversations about what someone needs and how therapy might fit into their life, and she encourages potential clients to ask questions before booking. Her way of working aims to help people feel empowered to find their own solutions, while offering practical tools and steady emotional support along the way.
What Lisa works with
How Lisa works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that suit online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person, helping them to set the pace and direction of work. It is useful when someone needs a compassionate space to make sense of feelings and decisions.Solution-Focused Therapy looks for practical, short-term steps that can bring change. It helps when someone wants clear goals, small experiments to try between sessions, and a focus on what is working.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing, commonly called EMDR, is used to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories. It can be offered remotely and is often chosen when trauma or deeply distressing events are central to someone's difficulties.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which methods fit best, based on the person's needs, goals and preferences. That conversation is ongoing and can change as work progresses.
Online sessions by video, phone, live chat or text messaging make therapy more flexible. Video calls suit in-depth work and visual connection. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text let people write out thoughts and check in across the week. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting 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
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- 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
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- 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
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
