Kerry Atkins, BACP
3 years in practice
Kerry Atkins is a counsellor and psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom.
License and registration
- BACP
- 408541 · expires March 2026
- Years in practice
- 3
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Kerry
Kerry Atkins is a counsellor and psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom. She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, and a wide range of other difficulties. Kerry has three years' experience and holds BACP accreditation.
Kerry aims to make the first steps into therapy less daunting. She uses a calm, empathetic approach and keeps sessions straightforward. She talks with people about how their past affects their present and helps them identify small, practical changes to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her work draws on Systemic ideas alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-based thinking. Kerry also uses client-centred and cognitive behavioural techniques when they fit a person's needs. Practical tools include breathing work, somatic body techniques and guided meditation to link feelings in the body with thoughts.
Kerry pays attention to how relationships - with others and with the self - shape difficulties such as anxiety, eating concerns, attachment wounds and communication problems. She also supports people dealing with complex situations like chronic illness, caregiving stress, adoption or bereavement. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging.
Kerry uses an individualised plan so each person gets an approach that suits their goals. She encourages steady progress while acknowledging how hard change can feel.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Kerry lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Kerry names
- Systemic Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Kerry blends therapeutic approaches online
Kerry combines Systemic ideas with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in a practical way. Systemic work looks at how relationships and patterns between people shape feelings and behaviour, helping to identify repeated dynamics that reinforce problems. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and learning small actions that matter, which can reduce struggling with painful thoughts and feelings.She also draws on Attachment-based work to explore how early bonds affect current relationships and emotional responses. That approach helps when people want to understand trust, closeness and boundaries in their connections with others. Kerry will discuss which of these approaches best matches a person's needs and adapt the work as goals change. Finding the right mix is collaborative and reviewed together over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone sessions can work well for lower bandwidth or quick check-ins, and text or chat can suit brief contact or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help fit therapy around work, family life and day-to-day commitments while keeping focus on the therapeutic work.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Kerry help with?
Kerry supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, self-esteem, ADHD and many other concerns listed on her profile.
How would you describe her therapy style?
She takes a calm and empathetic approach that links emotions, relationships and bodily experience. Sessions focus on practical steps alongside understanding patterns from the past.
What background and experience does she have?
She has three years' experience working as a counsellor and psychotherapist in the UK and works from a mixture of relational and practical approaches.
What credentials and region are noted?
Kerry holds BACP accreditation and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international arrangements apply?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
In what formats are sessions available?
Therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions priced?
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