Kerry Perkins, NCPS

Kerry Perkins offers counselling for a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, relationship and family difficulties, parenting pressures, low self-esteem, trauma and grief. She also supports people facing career strain, intimacy issues, anger and compassion fatigue. Kerry uses everyday language and a straightforward style to help people feel understood and able to make changes.

Kerry works in a way that centres the person in front of her. She explains NCPS as the membership body she belongs to and uses that shorthand NCPS in her practice description. Her approach draws on Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and she adapts these ideas to meet each person's needs.

Sessions focus on listening first, then helping clients spot patterns in thoughts and behaviours that get in the way. Kerry helps people practise new ways of thinking and trying small, manageable changes between meetings. She aims to make therapy practical and relevant to daily life.

She also pays attention to issues such as abandonment, codependency, body image, fatherhood concerns, pregnancy and childbirth, and isolation. Kerry frames these as common struggles people bring into the room, and she helps clients address the feelings behind them.

Kerry emphasises collaboration and respect. She offers validation while helping people build skills for handling triggers and difficult moments. To begin, people follow the service sign-up and matching steps to connect and arrange sessions.

How Kerry’s approaches translate to online counselling

Kerry draws on Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to guide online work. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on acceptance, active listening and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and able to explore their concerns. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and actions and helps people try practical experiments to change unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right way to work is part of the process. Kerry collaborates with each person to decide which approach or mix of ideas best matches their goals and preferences, and she checks in as therapy progresses to adapt the plan together.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, for example by avoiding travel time or allowing sessions during a lunch break. It can also suit people who prefer shorter check-ins or who need lower-bandwidth options. Confirm the specific session formats available with the service before booking so you know what options will be offered.