Kathleen Kingsley-Hughes

Kathleen Kingsley-Hughes is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, anger and change. She aims to meet each person without judgement and offers warmth, calm and mindful attention. Kathleen emphasises self-compassion and helps people understand their patterns so change can begin.

Kathleen works mainly from a person-centred way of relating, so the client leads and she accompanies them. She combines this with approaches that pay attention to the body and present-moment experience, helping people notice how emotions show up physically. This can be useful when anger, grief or anxiety feel overwhelming.

Her practice includes mindfulness, compassion-focused ideas and cognitive-behavioural techniques to help with everyday problems like sleep, motivation and low self-esteem. She also offers ways of working for deeper issues such as trauma and long-term emotional patterns, including approaches that attend to bodily sensations and felt sense.

Kathleen has six years' experience and is listed with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She also brings coaching skills for people wanting practical support with career, creativity or lifestyle goals. Many clients work with her over the longer term to explore inner experience and to build new ways of coping.

She supports people through life transitions such as bereavement, separation, ageing and the challenges of parenting changes. Kathleen aims to help people develop kinder self-talk, clearer boundaries and more present-moment awareness in daily life.

How Kathleen’s approaches translate to online therapy

Kathleen uses person-centred work that places the client in control and encourages a gentle, accepting exploration of what feels alive in the moment. This approach helps when people need space to talk through anger, grief or life transitions and for developing self-compassion.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical tools for mood, sleep and anxious thinking. Mindfulness-based elements help people notice bodily sensations and present-moment experience, useful for managing strong emotions and stress.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. Kathleen will work collaboratively to decide which approaches fit your needs, goals and preferences. Together you can try things and adjust the direction as needed rather than committing to a single method from the start.

Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not stated here. Many people find online work helpful for fitting therapy around daily life, saving travel time and allowing shorter check-ins when that is useful. Online sessions can make it easier to keep continuity during busy periods and to combine therapy with coaching or practical goal work when that is needed.