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Kay | Psychotherapist/Counsellor
Counselling Bournemouth
Feeling overwhelmed, constantly overthinking, or like you’re just getting through the day rather than living it?
You don’t have to figure it out alone.
You might be dealing with anxiety, stress, or low mood, struggling to switch off your thoughts, sleep properly, or feel like yourself.
Perhaps you’re feeling burnt out, emotionally drained, or stuck in patterns like people-pleasing, overthinking, or doubting yourself.
Past experiences, including trauma or difficult relationships, can continue to affect how you feel now, leaving you feeling on edge, disconnected, or unsure of who you are or what you need.
Support is available to help you make sense of what’s going on and begin to feel more in control. Using a neurodiversity-affirming, shame- and trauma-informed approach, support focuses on helping you rebuild confidence, set boundaries, and reconnect with yourself.
With a small team of experienced counsellors, support can often be offered quickly, with initial calls available within 48 hours and sessions usually starting within one week.
Appointments are available in-person in Bournemouth & Ferndown, Dorset and also Burbage, Leistershire. Online 1-1 and Couples counselling sessions available throughout the UK, meaning access and support are accessible from the convenience of your own location.
If you’re ready to take the next step, getting in touch could be the start of things feeling different
Online therapy
Talk openly from a place where you feel most comfortable, safe, and in control.
Availability now for new clients 1-1 in person and online (depending on your location).
Availability now for new couples clients in person and online (depending on your location).
Online therapy is available across the UK, with quick access to support, often with an initial call within 48 hours and sessions starting within one week.
You might be struggling with anxiety, stress, low mood, or feeling emotionally drained. Perhaps your thoughts feel hard to switch off, your sleep is affected, or you’re finding it difficult to feel like yourself. You may feel stuck in patterns like people-pleasing, overthinking, or doubting yourself.
Past experiences, including trauma, abuse, or difficult relationships, can continue to affect how you feel now, leaving you feeling on edge, disconnected, or unsure of who you are or what you need.
Support is available for:
- Anxiety, stress, low mood, and overwhelm
- Trauma, including sexual abuse, domestic violence, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)
- Bereavement, including pregnancy loss and miscarriage
- Relationship difficulties and attachment issues
- Life transitions such as separation, redundancy, or relocation
- Neurodivergence (ADHD, autism) and those living with chronic illness
Working in a neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-informed way, support is adapted to your individual needs. Counsellors have lived experience and specific training in adapting therapy to meet you where you are.
Sessions provide a safe, confidential space to explore what’s going on for you, helping you build resilience, gain clarity, and better understand yourself and your relationships. Over time, this can support you to feel more in control, more confident, and more like yourself again.
Therapeutic coaching is also available for those looking to gain direction, make decisions, and move forward with greater purpose and clarity.
With a small team of experienced counsellors, support can often be offered quickly, without long waiting times.
If you’re ready to take the next step, getting in touch could be the start of things feeling different.
Qualifications and registrations
Qualifications & Professional Registrations
- Middlesex University: BA Integrative Counselling
- Dip HE Integrative Counselling
- Diploma in Counselling Supervision
- MBACP Accredited Counsellor 402110
- ACC Accredited Counsellor R001502
2025
RNIB - Sight Loss Counsellor
Foundation for Infant Loss Practitioner
PESI Polyvagal - Somatic & Sound-Based Therapies for Nervous System Regulation
EMDR Practitioner
2024
- PESI - Attachment Theory in Clinical Practice: Transforming Development Deficits and Building Secure Attachment
- PESI - Finding Meaning in Loss: The Sixth Stage of Grief
- TRANSFORMATION Services - Professional Life Coach
- SANDS - Counselling parents and families following pregnancy loss and the death of a baby
- MAKE BIRTH BETTER- Birth Trauma Training Programme
- BEAT - ARFID Workshop
- NEDDE - Understanding and Managing ARFID, PDA and PICA Disorders
- BIELEC CONSULTANCY - Domestic Abuse, Coercive Controlling Behaviour & Stalking
- COLLABORATIVE COUNSELLING ACADEMY LTD - Working with Shame in the Therapy Room
- (MUSS) REWIND Technique
Continuing Professional Development
2023
- Safeguarding Level 3
- Working with suicide, intervention & prevention
- Applying Attachment Theory
- Strength-based Interventions to Thrive with ADHD from Childhood to Adulthood
- Integrating Internal Family Systems (IFS) Across Clinical Applications
- Treating Trauma with IFS: Procedures for Healing Trauma, Anxiety, Depression, and more
- Single-session therapy
- Gaslighting: Rebuild from a Narcissist's Emotional Abuse
- Janina Fisher's Trauma Treatment Certification Training (CCTP)
- Christiane Sanderson’s Intensive Course in Trauma-Informed Practice: Treating Complex PTSD
- Pregnancy and Infant Loss: Strategies to Support Grief and Treat Trauma, Anxiety, and Depression in Bereaved Families.
- BLUESTAR- Pre-Trial Therapy Training Programme
2022
- CPCAB: Trauma Informed Practice
- Working with Gestalt techniques
2021
- Telephone and E-counselling
- BACP/OU Counselling online
2020
- CRUSE: Bereavement Support Training
- Safeguarding, Level 2
Extra
- Enhanced DBS
- Insurance
- ICO Registered
Registrations
- ACC - The Association of Christian Counsellors
- BACP - The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
I offer therapy in
Specialisations
- 1. Anxiety & Panic Attacks
- 2. Burnout, Work Stress
- 3. 18+ Exam and Study Stress
- 4. Shame and Low Self-Worth
- 5. Trauma, PTSD, C-PTSD
- 6. Life Transitions & Ovewhelm
- 7. Couples Counselling
- 8. EMDR Practitioner
- 9. Bereavement & Chronic Health
- 10. Pregnancy, IVF, Birth Trauma
Specialisations and Expertises
You might have been coping for a long time, but that doesn’t mean you have to keep struggling alone.
Support is available for anxiety, stress, low mood, overwhelm, and more complex experiences. There is particular experience in relational trauma, including sexual abuse and domestic violence, and how this can affect trust, self-worth, and relationships.
Neurodiversity-affirming support is offered, with counsellors who have lived experience and specific training in adapting support to individual needs, including those living with chronic illness.
Bereavement counselling offers a compassionate space to process grief, including pregnancy loss and miscarriage. Support is also available for mature students living abroad navigating life changes.
Couples counselling is available in Burbage, LE10, or online for relationship difficulties, conflict, or communication challenges.
Taking the first step can feel difficult, but support is here when you feel ready.
Our Approach
At Place to Talk Therapies, we work integratively. Our team of counsellors don't follow a single rigid model instead, we draw from a range of well-evidenced approaches and tailor the work to you: your history, your nervous system, your pace.
At the heart of our practice is a relational, shame-aware, and somatic way of working. This means we pay attention not just to what you say, but to how you carry what you're going through in your body, your patterns, and the space between you and your therapist. Some of the frameworks we draw from include:
- Person-Centred Therapy: rooted in unconditional positive regard, empathy, and the belief that you are the expert on your own experience
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) / Parts Work: exploring the different parts of you that may be in conflict, and helping them find more ease
- Somatic Awareness: bringing gentle attention to the body as a source of information and healing
- Attachment Theory: understanding how early relational experiences shape the way you connect, protect yourself, and relate to others today
- Trauma-Informed Practice: working with sensitivity to how trauma lives in the body and nervous system, not just in memory
This isn't therapy-by-formula. It's responsive, human, and grounded in what actually helps.
What to Expect
Sessions are 60 minutes and held weekly or fortnightly, either in person or online. There's no pressure to arrive knowing what you want to say. Many people begin simply by talking and we find the thread from there.In your early sessions, your therapist will take time to understand what's brought you here, what you're hoping for, and whether you feel like a good fit together.
The therapeutic relationship itself is central to the work how you meet, how misattunements are repaired, and how trust builds over time all become part of the process. Progress in therapy rarely looks like a straight line. There may be sessions that feel quietly significant, and others that feel uncertain, both have value.
Ready to Take a First Step?
Getting in touch can feel like the hardest part. You don't need to have it figured out before you reach out that's what we're here for.
Most common issues I support people with:
- Relational trauma
- Anxiety
- Life changes
- Womens mental health issues
- Neurodivergent issues impacting mental health
- Couples Counselling
- Chronic illness/pain
- Grief, bereavement and loss
- Pregnancy/IVF
- Micarriage & Baby loss
- Spirittuality
- Marital and premarital counselling support
- Relationship support
- Depression
Therapies offered
- ✓ ACT
- ✓ Affordable counselling
- ✓ Attachment-based therapy
- ✓ Compassion focused therapy
- ✓ Counselling
- ✓ EMDR Therapy
- ✓ Emotionally focussed therapy
- ✓ Integrative Counselling
- ✓ Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
- ✓ Low cost counselling
- ✓ Mindfulness
- ✓ Online counselling
- ✓ Person-centred therapy
- ✓ Psychotherapy
- ✓ Relationship Counselling
- ✓ REWIND Technique
- ✓ Telephone counselling
- ✓ Trauma therapy
- ✓ Zoom counselling
Areas of counselling I can help with
- ✓ Abortion
- ✓ Abuse
- ✓ Anger management
- ✓ Anxiety
- ✓ Attachment disorder
- ✓ Being a perfectionist
- ✓ Being assertive
- ✓ Bereavement, grief, loss
- ✓ Bullying
- ✓ Burnout
- ✓ Childhood emotional neglect (CEN)
- ✓ Communication
- ✓ Self confidence
- ✓ Depression
- ✓ Family problems
- ✓ Fear
- ✓ Feeling lonely
- ✓ Feeling sad
- ✓ Infertility
- ✓ Insecurity
- ✓ Jealousy
- ✓ Living with cancer
- ✓ Low self esteem
- ✓ Miscarriage
- ✓ Neurodiversity
- ✓ Panic attack
- ✓ Performance anxiety
- ✓ Post-traumatic stress disorder
- ✓ Postnatal depression
- ✓ Redundancy
- ✓ Relationship issues
- ✓ Retirement
- ✓ Self-harm
- ✓ Setting boundaries
- ✓ Sight loss
- ✓ Sleep problems
- ✓ Social phobia
- ✓ Stress
- ✓ Trauma
- ✓ Workplace stress
- ✓ Worrying too much
Fees
£65 -75 per 60 minute counselling sessionSessions can be weekly or bi-weekly.
Availability (Opening hours)
| Monday | 10am-5pm |
| Tuesday | 10am-5pm |
| Wednesday | 10am-5pm |
| Thursday | 10am-5pm |
| Friday | 10am-5pm |
| Saturday | - |
| Sunday | - |
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