Kirsten Lawrence

Kirsten Lawrence is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with eight years of practice. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting pressures, relationship and family problems, grief, low self-esteem, and questions about life purpose. She also supports people facing career uncertainty, mood challenges including bipolar, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Kirsten frames counselling as a way to increase personal autonomy and notice individual strengths. Sessions focus on helping people talk through difficult moments, explore past experiences that keep turning up now, and build practical ways to manage day-to-day stress. She emphasises clear, down-to-earth conversation rather than jargon. Her approach is integrative and draws on humanistic traditions. Client-Centred Therapy is part of this, which means the person’s perspective guides the work and the pace. Mindfulness techniques are used to help with present-moment noticing and reducing reactivity. Kirsten adapts methods to fit the person and the issue at hand. That can mean looking at patterns from earlier relationships, discussing unhelpful thinking, or practising simple attention exercises. Sessions aim to make these ideas usable between appointments. People come for varied reasons - a painful breakup, questions about purpose, parenting strain, or long-standing anxiety. Kirsten encourages practical steps alongside reflection so people can try things out in their daily life. To start, the service asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session.

How Kirsten’s approaches translate to online work

Client-Centred Therapy places the client’s experience at the heart of sessions. Online this means the counsellor listens closely to what the person brings, follows their pace, and helps them decide which topics to focus on. This approach suits people who want to be understood and to lead the direction of their sessions.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing techniques to reduce reactivity and manage overwhelming feelings. Practising these skills during online sessions can help with anxiety, panic symptoms, and daily stressors by building short exercises a person can use between meetings.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Kirsten will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and then try approaches that fit. That collaboration means the plan can shift if something isn’t working or if new priorities arise.

The therapist’s profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit counselling into a busy life - for example by avoiding travel, allowing brief check-ins during a break, or choosing a phone-only chat when bandwidth is limited. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises and reflective work to an online setting so sessions feel practical and usable in day-to-day routines.