Lisa Kirk
Practical, compassionate support for life’s hard moments
About Lisa
Lisa Kirk trained and practises in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration. She has four years of professional experience supporting people through stressful and painful times. Lisa aims to create a calm space where clients can talk things through and make sense of difficult feelings.
Her approach is warm and patient. She works in a straightforward way, listening first and then helping people set manageable goals. Conversations are shaped around each person's needs so practical steps come from what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Lisa has worked with a range of concerns including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief and depression. She also helps people struggling with relationship and family issues, intimacy-related difficulties, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger and self-esteem. Career worries and bipolar-related challenges are also within her experience.
Additional focus areas include attachment difficulties, abandonment, autism and Asperger syndrome, personality-related issues, body image, chronic illness and caregiver stress, and matters connected to kink and alternative sex culture. She also supports people coping with cancer, chronic pain, co-morbidity and disaster-related reactions. Sessions are tailored to the individual.
Lisa combines client-centred listening with motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change. She aims to help clients build coping skills, improve communication, and move toward clearer choices in daily life.
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding the person as they are. It involves careful listening, reflecting what the client says, and helping people name their feelings so they can decide what matters next. This approach often helps with low mood, grief, self-esteem and relationship concerns.Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way of helping people find their own reasons to change. The therapist asks open questions and highlights strengths to encourage small, achievable steps. It can be useful for issues where people feel stuck or ambivalent, such as lifestyle shifts, coping strategies, or patterns that repeat in relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options with the client and adjust methods based on their goals and preferences. This is a shared process aimed at matching practical techniques to what the client wants to achieve.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people have a face-to-face conversation without travel, phone sessions need less bandwidth, and text-based messaging or live chat can suit short check-ins or times when writing feels easier. These options can make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and day-to-day commitments while still engaging with a registered or accredited professional.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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 problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- 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
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
