Kirsty Black
Compassionate, neurodivergent-affirming counsellor
About Kirsty
Kirsty Black is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She holds NCPS accreditation and brings four years of professional counselling experience alongside 16 years in support roles. Kirsty describes herself as neurodivergent-affirming and works online with adults and young people.
She communicates in English and sees international clients by video, phone, live chat or messaging. Kirsty uses a flexible, integrative style. She blends tools from several approaches to match each person's needs rather than following one fixed method.
Background and approach
Sessions can include talking, creative activities, or practical exercises depending on what helps a person engage. People come to Kirsty for a wide range of concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, relationship and family difficulties, grief, addiction, ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, and career-related stress. She also supports work on intimacy, self-esteem, anger and coping with life changes.
Additional focus areas include body image, caregiving strain, chronic illness and blended family issues. Her background includes work with charities, schools, universities and independent practice. That range has shaped a practical approach to day-to-day problems as well as longer-term emotional work.
Kirsty is studying for an MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health which informs her perspective on family concerns. Sessions are offered in a respectful, compassionate manner. Kirsty aims to help people find clearer ways to manage difficult feelings and to build steps that fit their life.
She invites people to try different techniques and to adjust the plan as needed.
What Kirsty works with
How Kirsty works
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Sessions & fees
How different approaches work online
Kirsty uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy as part of her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and choose actions that align with their values, which can be useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how those patterns affect current connections and intimacy.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try different ways of working together. That collaborative process helps shape whether more ACT, attachment work or other tools are used in sessions.
Online therapy can be highly flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and use of visual materials, phone sessions offer a simpler way to talk when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can suit brief check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit counselling around work, family or other commitments and to continue progress even when schedules change.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English
