Kelly Richardson, BACP

Counsellor Kelly Richardson is a BACP member with 11 years' experience. She works with stress, anxiety, grief, career concerns, depression, coping with life changes, relationship and family issues, parenting, anger and self-esteem. Kelly practises in the United Kingdom and offers work based on counselling approaches she uses in private practice.

Kelly presents a person-centred approach in one-to-one work. She focuses on offering conditions of congruence, empathy and unconditional positive regard while drawing on other methods where useful. This means conversations centre on the client’s perspective, with practical techniques added when they help.

Her background includes time working alongside police services and with emergency services staff. She has worked with Cruse Bereavement Care on loss and bereavement and has experience with anxiety and depression through an IAPT NHS initiative. She is an affiliate counsellor for employee assistance programme providers addressing work-related stress.

Kelly trained at the University of Hull and Leeds Beckett University. She maintains continuing professional development through regular training and workshops. She is recorded as BACP accredited and has undergone BACP audit processes.

In practice she uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to look at patterns of thoughts and behaviours, and solution-focused tools to agree short-term steps. She also draws on mindfulness and motivational approaches to build coping skills. Sessions can be short-term focused work or open-ended, depending on what the client and counsellor decide.

To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then book a first session. Costs vary with location and use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.

Approaches used in online counselling with Kelly Richardson