About Kerry
Kerry Atkins is a counsellor and psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom. She has three years of experience and works with a wide range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and ADHD. Kerry aims to make the first steps into therapy feel smaller and more manageable for people who are worried or uncertain.
Kerry draws on somatic practice to help people reconnect with their bodies alongside talking therapies.
Background and approach
She also uses approaches from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based work and cognitive behavioural ideas depending on what a person needs. Sessions often mix breathing exercises, guided meditation and gentle body-focused techniques with conversation. Her style is calm and person-focused.
Kerry listens for what matters to each person and adapts the pace to suit them. She places importance on understanding how past experiences affect present feelings and relationships. People come for help with many issues including sleeping problems, eating concerns, self-esteem, career stress, compassion fatigue and coping with life changes.
Additional areas she notes include adoption and foster care, attachment issues, chronic illness, caregiver stress and body image difficulties. Kerry works with individuals on practical steps and emotional processing. Sessions are aimed at helping people notice patterns, try new responses, and build skills for coping.
The aim is steady progress rather than instant fixes.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Somatic work focuses on the connection between the body and emotions, using gentle body awareness and breathing techniques to help people notice and shift physical patterns that hold stress or anxiety. This can be useful for trauma, chronic pain and strong emotional states.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and develop small, practical steps to live in line with those values. It combines acceptance of difficult feelings with committed action to make life more meaningful.
Attachment-based approaches look at how early relationships shape current patterns in relationships and self-view. They aim to increase security in relationships and improve communication and emotional connection.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to a person's goals, needs and preferences in a collaborative way. Over a few sessions Kerry will check what feels helpful and adjust the mix of talking and body-based practices.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family and health needs while keeping continuity of care. Online formats also allow for using breathing exercises and guided meditation during sessions so practical tools can be learned and practised in everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English