About Kirsty
Kirsty Waite is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience and a BACP registration. She aims to create a calm, non-judgemental space where people can feel heard and begin to make sense of difficult feelings. Kirsty works at a gentle pace and adapts sessions to what each person needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all model.
Her background includes more than 600 clinical hours seeing people with anxiety, stress, grief, low self-esteem and trauma.
Background and approach
Kirsty also draws on personal experience as a carer, which shapes her understanding of the pressures faced by those balancing caregiving and their own wellbeing. That lived perspective often helps when practical coping strategies are needed alongside emotional work. Kirsty uses an integrative style and brings together Somatic ideas, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-based approaches, Client-Centred work and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Sessions might include talking through thoughts and patterns, noticing bodily responses, and trying out small, practical steps between meetings. The emphasis is on what helps in day-to-day life. She is comfortable supporting people dealing with relationship worries, career strain, chronic illness or the fallout of abuse.
Kirsty also works with issues like panic attacks, sleeping problems, compassion fatigue and questions about life purpose. Her approach stays practical and collaborative throughout. People who prefer a supportive, flexible therapist often find her helpful.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. To begin, a short questionnaire and a scheduling step match the right timing for sessions.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Somatic-informed work helps people notice how emotions show up in the body and uses gentle attention to breathing, posture and sensations to reduce stress and increase self-awareness. It can be useful for anxiety, panic and ongoing stress where the body is holding tension.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions towards them while learning to relate differently to difficult thoughts. It often helps with low mood, anxiety and life transitions by combining acceptance with practical steps.
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people understand and change repeating cycles in relationships. This can be useful for communication problems, commitment issues and feelings of abandonment.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kirsty will discuss different options and help you pick methods that match your goals, needs and preferences. The process is collaborative and can shift over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls and phone sessions allow face-to-face connection from home, while live chat and text-based messaging suit those who prefer short, written exchanges or need contact between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or health limitations and let the therapist and client try different ways of working that feel comfortable.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English