Orla Kirk
Compassionate counsellor for life transitions
About Orla
Orla Kirk is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties. Orla also helps clients dealing with grief, low self-esteem, motivation problems and addictions.
She uses a straightforward, respectful approach in sessions. Conversations are shaped around what matters to the individual. Orla listens for patterns from a person's history and current life to help identify practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with trauma and abuse, attachment concerns and ADHD-related challenges. She also supports people facing career uncertainty, anger, isolation and family-related difficulties. Additional focuses include body image, fertility worries and the strain of caregiving.
Orla blends client-centred listening with methods that focus on relationships and workable solutions. That mix lets sessions address emotional causes while also finding concrete changes to try between meetings. She aims to make therapy feel like a collaborative problem-solving process.
Sessions are adapted to each person's pace and goals. Orla explains options and helps people choose tools that fit their daily life. She encourages small, realistic steps so progress feels manageable rather than overwhelming.
What Orla works with
How Orla works
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Listed by Orla among the ways they work.
Listed by Orla among the ways they work.
Listed by Orla among the ways they work.
Listed by Orla among the ways they work.
Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Orla combines approaches that look at relationships and practical change. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationships shape feelings and expectations in current relationships, which can help with trust and commitment struggles. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding from the person's perspective, giving space for thoughts and feelings to be heard without judgement. Solution-Focused Therapy moves quickly to identify small, achievable goals and steps to try between sessions when people want concrete change.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Orla will talk through options and make decisions with the person based on their goals, life situation and what feels most helpful. That collaborative process aims to match methods to what someone needs, rather than using a single fixed plan.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people read tone and expression, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging suits short updates or days when typing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, care duties and other commitments while keeping continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
