Lyn Kirby
Compassionate support for addiction and relationship struggles
About Lyn
Lyn Kirby offers calm, practical support for people facing addiction, relationship strain, grief or eating concerns. She is named early on so readers know who they will contact. Her style is straightforward and reassuring, aimed at those who feel stuck or overwhelmed and need a steady, experienced guide.
She brings three decades of experience in helping people with addictive behaviours and the ripple effects these have on loved ones. That background also covers family of origin problems, abuse, relationship difficulties and mood concerns like depression and bipolar.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on honest conversation and on building small, manageable steps forward. Lyn creates an open, non-judgemental space for clients to talk about what matters most. She listens closely and uses Client-Centred Therapy to follow each person’s priorities.
Motivational Interviewing helps when people want to change habits but feel unsure how to begin. Work often centres on practical goals such as improving communication, coping with loss, managing eating behaviours, reducing substance use and rebuilding self-esteem. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, codependency, body image problems and life transitions.
People can expect collaborative sessions where decisions are shared and progress is tracked. Lyn explains options plainly and adapts the approach to each person’s situation. She aims to help people feel clearer, more capable and better able to make choices that fit their life.
What Lyn works with
How Lyn works
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Sessions & fees
How Lyn's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy is about listening and following what matters to the person seeking help. The therapist offers empathy, reflects what is said and helps clients set their own priorities, which can suit relationship strain, grief and self-esteem work. Motivational Interviewing focuses on gentle conversation to build motivation for change. It helps when someone wants to reduce substance use, change eating patterns or take steps away from old habits by exploring ambivalence and identifying personal reasons to move forward. Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will work with each client to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Goals, pace and techniques are reviewed together so the work stays relevant and practical. Online sessions offer flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction without travel. Phone sessions suit brief check-ins or lower bandwidth situations. Live chat and text-based messaging provide ongoing access between meetings and can be useful for short updates, reflections or when someone prefers typing to speaking. For many people, these options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and day-to-day life while still using established counselling methods delivered by registered or accredited professionals.| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
