Kirstine Hunter, BACP

Kirstine Hunter is a humanistic counsellor who uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her sessions. She holds BACP registration and brings seven years of counselling experience to her practice. Kirstine aims to create a warm, accepting space where people can talk through what matters to them and feel heard.

She focuses on everyday struggles such as anxiety, low self-esteem, depression and grief. She also helps people dealing with identity and LGBT concerns, relationship and intimacy-related issues, addiction, stress and burnout. Career changes, coping with life transitions and compassion fatigue are among other practical areas she supports.

Kirstine has worked in health settings, including a cancer service, and has volunteered with bereavement and LGBT+ organisations. That background gives her insight into how physical health or hormonal changes can affect thoughts and feelings. She is interested in how individual differences shape a person’s experience.

In sessions she offers calm, non-judgemental support and adapts her approach to each person. She will listen, help identify unhelpful patterns, and suggest simple, practical steps to try between meetings. The aim is to reduce overwhelm and build more effective ways of coping.

People can expect straightforward, paced conversations that focus on what is most useful right now. Kirstine provides video, phone, live chat and text-based messaging sessions to fit different needs and routines.

Therapy approaches you can access online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify what matters to them, and take small steps toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and dealing with change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought and behaviour patterns that keep problems going, and practising different ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then adapt techniques from ACT and CBT to fit the person. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as understanding grows.

Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is good for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging work well for shorter check-ins or when people prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities and health appointments, while keeping consistent progress with agreed goals.