Kirsty Peart, BACP

Kirsty Peart is a counsellor registered with the BACP and has five years of professional experience. She helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, relationship concerns, and issues related to LGBT identities. She also supports people dealing with grief, addiction, sleep or eating difficulties, and major life changes.

Kirsty uses practical approaches that include Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and client-centred methods. She encourages straightforward conversations about thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Sessions focus on noticing unhelpful patterns and trying different ways of responding to them.

Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She works with clients to set clear goals and to use small experiments between sessions. This can include simple behaviour changes, short written exercises, or checking how new responses feel in daily life.

Kirsty also draws on solution-focused and existential ideas when they suit a person's needs. That can mean concentrating on strengths and immediate next steps, or talking about values and what matters to someone now. She adapts the mix of methods to what the person wants to work on.

Clients can expect short, practical discussions that lead to concrete steps. Kirsty asks about current problems, looks at the thinking that keeps them going, and plans doable changes. People who prefer clear structure and focused tools tend to find this approach useful.

How her approaches are used in online sessions