Kirsty Black, NCPS
4 years in practice
Kirsty Black is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with four years of professional experience.
License and registration
- NCPS
- NCS23-03009 · expires July 2026
- Years in practice
- 4
- Languages
- English
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About Kirsty
Kirsty Black is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with four years of professional experience. She holds NCPS credentials and a BA (Hons) in Counselling. Kirsty draws on a long history of support roles to help people through difficult times.
Kirsty has worked in schools, universities, charities and independent practice. She offers online and telephone sessions as well as text-based support. She has lived and professional experience of neurodiversity and describes her work as neurodivergent affirming.
Background and approach
Her approach is integrative and practical. She uses tools from Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy when these fit a person’s needs. Sessions can include talking, creative activities and coping strategies tailored to the individual.
Kirsty supports people with a wide range of concerns. These include stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family difficulties, grief, addiction, ADHD, issues with intimacy and body image, and coping with life changes. She also works with people facing chronic illness, caregiver strain and career-related stress.
She emphasises respect, sensitivity and empathy in sessions. Kirsty says she aims to help people feel heard and to build practical steps forward. Her continuing studies include an MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, which informs her work with family-related issues.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Kirsty lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Kirsty names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Online therapy approaches and practical benefits
Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on feelings and how they shape relationships and self-understanding. It helps people identify important emotions, name them and use them to guide change in relationships and personal patterns.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify personal values and build small, concrete actions that match those values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, low mood and when someone wants to live more in line with what matters to them.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current ways of relating. It can support people working through patterns of connection, trust and closeness in relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist discusses options with each person and jointly decides what to try first based on goals and preferences. That collaborative planning may change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual interaction. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or suit lower bandwidth, while live chat and text messaging let people reflect in writing and fit therapy around work or busy days. Many people find this range of formats makes it easier to keep therapy consistent.
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Questions people ask
What issues can Kirsty help with?
She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family difficulties, grief, addiction, ADHD and body image problems.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
The approach is integrative and practical, combining talking therapy with creative activities and specific strategies drawn from different models to suit each person.
What background does she bring to sessions?
She has four years of professional counselling experience and 16 years in support roles across charities, schools, universities and independent practice.
What credentials and location are on record?
She holds NCPS credentials, a BA (Hons) in Counselling and works from the United Kingdom.
Are other languages or international work supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted by video call, phone session, live chat or text-based messaging.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions operate via a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
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