Kirsten Lawrence

Kirsten Lawrence offers calm, straightforward counselling for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or big life changes. She writes in everyday terms and aims to help people find more steadiness and confidence. Kirsten works in a collaborative way so clients lead the pace of change.

She draws on Client-Centred Therapy to place the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. That means listening without judgement and helping people notice their own strengths. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy techniques to help reduce worry and improve focus in daily life.

With eight years of experience, Kirsten combines several humanistic approaches to match each person’s needs. She adapts ideas from psychodynamic thinking, transactional analysis, gestalt and psychosynthesis when they fit the situation. The emphasis is practical - talking through what feels difficult and trying small changes that make life easier.

Kirsten supports people with a wide range of concerns including parenting stress, relationship and family problems, mood and anxiety difficulties, trauma and abuse, identity and LGBT matters, ADHD and compassion fatigue. She also addresses issues such as money worries, career crossroads and feelings of emptiness.

Sessions aim to increase self-understanding and day-to-day coping. People can expect an open, respectful space to explore feelings and try new ways of responding to old patterns.

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