Kathleen Kingsley-Hughes, BACP

Kathleen Kingsley-Hughes is a counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression and trauma. She also supports those dealing with addictions, sleep and eating struggles, parenting pressures, relationship worries and challenges linked to career or life changes. Kathleen practises in the United Kingdom and works with people who have a military or emergency services background as part of her experience.

Kathleen’s style is calm, accepting and warm. She places the person seeking help at the centre of the work and aims to travel alongside them rather than direct them. Sessions often focus on building self-compassion, naming patterns that cause distress and finding small, practical steps forward.

Her day-to-day approach draws on client-centred ways of working and cognitive behavioural ideas. She also uses attachment-based thinking and mindfulness practices to help people notice emotions and bodily sensations. These methods are used to explore how past experiences shape current reactions and to develop new ways of coping.

Kathleen combines shorter-term coaching and goal work with longer-term therapeutic exploration. This might include practical support for setting goals, accountability and creative ways to develop resilience. She offers trauma-informed mindfulness and self-compassion practices for people struggling with burnout, shame or strong inner criticism.

She holds BACP registration, which is shown as BACP. Kathleen has around six years of professional experience and has a long-standing meditation practice that informs her work.

How Kathleen uses therapy approaches online

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people understand repeated reactions in relationships and build safer ways of relating to others. Client-centred therapy puts the person in charge of the pace and topics, with the counsellor offering empathy and reflection to help the client find their own answers. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions and gives practical exercises to test and change unhelpful habits.

Deciding which approach to use is part of the work itself. Kathleen will discuss needs, goals and preferences and then suggest a way of working that fits. That choice is reviewed together as therapy progresses, so the plan can change if something else would help more.

The profile does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current session options before booking. Many people find online or remote sessions easier to fit into busy days, to keep a shorter check-in, or to avoid travel between appointments. Online work also supports regular practice of mindfulness and homework tasks that feed into sessions, helping to make steady progress while fitting therapy around everyday life.