Kathleen Kingsley-Hughes , BACP

Kathleen Kingsley-Hughes brings a warm, nonjudgmental presence to therapeutic work and places the client at the centre of the process. She practices from a person-centred stance, meeting people where they are and helping them to explore their experience with calm, mindful attention. This approach emphasises the client as the expert in their own life while the therapist accompanies them as a supportive partner, helping to surface strengths and possibilities for change.

Kathleen often guides clients toward greater self-compassion, helping them recognise unhelpful patterns and cultivate kinder ways of relating to themselves. Her work includes trauma-informed methods and compassion-focused techniques, which can be particularly helpful when addressing burnout, shame, self-critical thinking and the lasting effects of traumatic experiences. She also uses focusing-oriented and Hakomi-informed practices to attend to bodily sensations and embodied wisdom as gateways to deeper understanding.

She has experience supporting people with stress, anxiety, grief and loss, sleep difficulties, low self-esteem and motivation. Kathleen has worked with clients from military and emergency services backgrounds, parents navigating separation or empty nest transitions, younger adults exploring values and career direction, and older adults adjusting to ageing and later-life change. She also integrates coaching skills to support clients pursuing wellbeing, creative aims or performance goals.

Kathleen teaches trauma-sensitive mindfulness and self-compassion and maintains a long-standing meditation practice. She holds BACP accreditation - membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - and aims to help clients build present-moment awareness, fuller emotional understanding and a more compassionate relationship with themselves.