Kathleen Kingsley-Hughes

Kathleen Kingsley-Hughes is a counsellor who helps people with stress, anxiety, grief, depression and a wide range of life challenges. She works with clients on relationship concerns, parenting stress, sleeping and eating difficulties, addiction and compassion fatigue. Kathleen also supports people dealing with ADHD, career changes and the emotional effects of trauma and abuse.

Her style is calm, warm and non-judgemental. She describes her approach as person-centred, which means the client leads the work while she listens and reflects alongside them. Kathleen places emphasis on kindness to oneself and on developing self-compassion as a route to change.

She combines person-centred work with other ways of working to meet individual needs. These include attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioural techniques, mindfulness practices and hypnotherapy. She also uses approaches that focus on how the body and felt sense hold experience.

Kathleen has around six years of professional experience and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. She teaches trauma-sensitive mindfulness and self-compassion and maintains a long-standing personal meditation practice.

Clients can expect sessions that explore patterns of thought, body awareness and present-moment experience. Kathleen also offers coaching support for wellbeing, creativity and life changes when people want a practical, goal-focused conversation alongside therapeutic work.

How Kathleen’s approaches translate to online work

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help people notice relational expectations and try new ways of relating in day-to-day life. Client-centred therapy centres the person’s experience and aims to offer acceptance and empathic understanding; this gives space to talk through what feels important and to build self-compassion. Cognitive behavioural therapy, in a straightforward form, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and can help with anxiety, low mood and sleep by using practical exercises and experiments.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Kathleen treats this as a collaborative task - she listens to the client’s goals and preferences and suggests ways of working that match those aims. Over a few sessions she and the client decide together whether to focus on mindfulness, body-awareness, practical behaviour change or a coaching emphasis.

Session formats are not specified in the profile, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit meetings around work, childcare or mobility needs, and it can allow shorter check-ins or quieter, less busy sessions when that helps. Many people find online sessions reduce travel time and make regular appointments simpler to manage, while still allowing space for reflective and embodied work.