Kerry Hyland, BACP

Kerry Hyland offers support for stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem and depression. She also helps with addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting strain, anger, career worries, bipolar challenges and adapting to life changes. Kerry works with people concerned about ADHD, compassion fatigue and a wide range of other personal stresses.

Kerry uses a flexible, person-focused style. She adapts what she does to each person’s needs and aims to build trust quickly. Sessions aim to be straightforward and practical so people can use what they learn between meetings.

Her background includes ten years of clinical work in community and institutional settings. That has involved roles in primary and secondary schools, a GP surgery, university student counselling, and a private psychotherapy practice. She also spent three years working as a one-to-one mental health recovery worker in the community.

Kerry draws on a mix of approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, client-centred methods, cognitive behavioural techniques and elements of dialectical behaviour work. She may combine skills from different approaches to suit the issue being addressed.

Her manner is warm, grounded and non-judgemental. Kerry emphasises hearing the person and helping them recover a sense of agency. She also runs bespoke wellbeing workshops alongside individual sessions.

Sessions are offered in English and Kerry accepts international clients. Practical details about formats and subscriptions are provided through the service when booking.

Practical therapy approaches for online sessions

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on what matters to them. It uses small steps to build actions that fit a person’s values, which is useful for anxiety, low mood and life transitions.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current patterns. It can help people understand trust, closeness and repeating relationship behaviours, which is useful for intimacy and communication concerns.

Kerry treats finding the right fit as a shared process. She will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then agree an approach together. That collaborative planning means the work can change as needs change.

Online formats used include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflection and flexibility around work or caring commitments.

These options make therapy easier to fit around life and travel. Registered or accredited professionals offer the same therapeutic approaches online as in person, and the range of formats helps people keep continuity of care when schedules change.