About Kerry
Kerry Hyland is a counsellor who supports people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She also helps with addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger and career changes. Kerry works with people dealing with ADHD, bipolar mood swings, compassion fatigue and a range of life transitions.
Kerry draws on somatic ideas alongside conversational therapy. Sessions aim to link what someone feels in their body with their thoughts and emotions.
Background and approach
She adapts techniques to each person, using clear, practical steps that can be tried between sessions. Her background includes ten years in mental health and counselling settings. She has worked in schools, a GP surgery and as a university student counsellor, and also in community mental health support roles.
That mix has given her experience with diverse concerns and everyday pressures. Kerry describes her style as warm, grounded and non-judgemental. She uses a client-centred approach while bringing in cognitive-behavioural tools and acceptance-focused ideas when helpful.
The aim is to build trust quickly and focus on useful change. In sessions she may offer mindfulness, motivational techniques, visualisation and practical exercises. She also pays attention to attachment patterns and how past relationships affect day-to-day coping.
Kerry is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
How Kerry’s approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic-informed work helps people notice physical sensations and how they connect to feelings. Online sessions can guide gentle body awareness, breathing and grounding exercises that are done while talking about experiences. This can help with anxiety, trauma-related tension and stress patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, focuses on what matters to someone and small steps towards those values. It uses practical exercises to change how people relate to difficult thoughts and feelings rather than trying to eliminate them, which can suit life transitions and chronic stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current ways of relating. Online conversations can map attachment patterns and practice new ways of connecting and setting boundaries in daily life. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kerry will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most useful for their goals and preferences. She adjusts techniques as progress and needs become clearer. Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel, and allow people to choose the format that feels most comfortable for exploring thoughts, emotions and bodily experience.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English