Kay Holdsworth, BACP
5 years in practice
Kay Holdsworth is a counsellor, psychotherapist and coach who helps people who feel stuck and want to make changes.
License and registration
- BACP
- 380509 · expires March 2026
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Kay
Kay Holdsworth is a counsellor, psychotherapist and coach who helps people who feel stuck and want to make changes. She works with clients who are dealing with stress, anxiety, low mood and motivational issues, guiding them toward clearer decisions and more steady day-to-day coping. She offers practical tools and simple exercises clients can use between sessions.
Kay often suggests journalling, short experiments and breathing or relaxation practices to build small habits that add up over time.
Background and approach
She sets tasks that match each person’s goals and circumstances. Her approach draws on a mix of methods, including cognitive behavioural ideas, mindfulness, client-centred listening and hypnotherapy techniques. She also uses creative activities and guided visualisations when they suit a client’s needs.
Sessions are conversational and aim to be straightforward and actionable. Kay trained to postgraduate level with a Postgraduate Certificate in Counselling and Psychotherapy in 2017. She completed further creative counselling training in 2023 and solution-focused training in 2021.
Those courses inform the flexible, practical style she brings to sessions. She has worked in university wellbeing services and ran community wellbeing courses and groups. That background means she is used to offering short-term support, longer work, and guided skills practice.
Kay works from the United Kingdom and offers online session formats for international clients.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Kay lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Kay names
- Hypnotherapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches used online and how they help
Kay commonly uses hypnotherapy-style guided relaxation to help people reduce stress reactions and practice calmer thinking, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and act in line with their values. She also draws on client-centred therapy to provide attentive listening and support while clients find their own solutions.Finding the best approach is part of the work. Kay discusses options with each person and tries small techniques first to see what fits. Together the client and therapist decide which mix of methods helps meet the client’s goals and preferences, adapting as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy workable around busy lives. Video is useful for more in-depth conversational work and guided visualisations, phone sessions are easy when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits short check-ins or when people prefer not to be on camera. These options aim to make it simpler to attend sessions and practice new skills between meetings.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Kay commonly help with?
Kay supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem and motivation problems, as well as relationship and family of origin issues and a wide range of other concerns listed on her profile.
What is Kay's therapeutic style?
Her style is practical and collaborative, blending client-centred listening with exercises from cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness and hypnotherapy-style guided relaxation.
What experience does she have?
She has five years of professional experience and has worked in university wellbeing services, delivered community courses and run mental health groups.
What credentials and location are listed?
Kay holds a BACP credential and is based in the United Kingdom as stated on her profile.
Which languages and international arrangements are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging as possible ways to meet online.
How are sessions billed and what does it cost?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with Kay?
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