Denise Kerr, BACP

Denise Kerr is a counsellor with 15 years of experience helping people work through emotional challenges. She draws on a range of psychological approaches to meet each person where they are. Denise aims to create a calm space where people can talk honestly about their concerns and start to make practical changes.

She practises in the United Kingdom and holds the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy membership, shown as BACP. Denise studied psychology and later completed postgraduate study in psychotherapy and counselling. Her background includes early work with the charity Mind, where she gained front-line experience supporting people in need.

Denise uses an integrative approach that adapts tools from different therapies to suit each person. That can mean looking at patterns from past relationships, noticing thoughts that keep someone stuck, or focusing on emotions that feel overwhelming. Sessions are conversational and aimed at helping people build new coping skills and clearer thinking.

She helps with stress, anxiety and depression, plus relationship and communication problems. Denise also supports people facing grief, parenting strain, workplace issues, mood changes such as seasonal affective disorder, and difficulties around attachment or abandonment.

The work often includes goal-focused coaching, practical problem-solving, and space to process feelings about separation, loss or trauma. Denise’s style is steady and compassionate, with an emphasis on small steps that lead to lasting changes.

How Denise’s approaches work online

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current emotions and expectations. Online sessions can help people notice patterns in attachments and develop new ways of relating that reduce anxiety and abandonment fears.

Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work and emphasises being listened to without judgement. This approach is useful for building self-esteem and finding clarity about decisions or life changes.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Denise will discuss goals and preferences with each person and suggest methods that fit their needs. Together they decide what to try and adjust as the work progresses, keeping the focus practical and collaborative.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet with a counsellor. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life.