Kerry Hyland

Kerry Hyland is an accredited psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom with ten years' experience working across a range of settings. She offers a distinctive, creative approach that combines Psychology, Humanistic Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy to meet each person’s individual needs.

She adapts her methods to suit the presenting issue - for example using cognitive behavioural techniques for anxiety or drawing on wellbeing strategies, motivational approaches, visualisation and elements of NLP when those are more relevant. Kerry typically works within a short-term framework and describes a proven ability to establish a therapeutic relationship of trust quickly, fostering enduring change with minimal dropout rates.

Her background includes roles as a children’s counsellor in both primary and secondary schools, a counsellor in a busy GP surgery and three years working in the community as a one-to-one Mental Health Recovery Worker. She is currently employed as a university student counsellor while also running a private psychotherapy practice that supports individual clients and delivers bespoke wellbeing workshops.

Kerry is particularly drawn to empowering people who have lost their voice and brings a deep, practical understanding of mental health conditions to her everyday practice. Her work is inclusive and unconditional; she aims to be warm, grounded and empathetic, offering a non-judgmental space that recognises each person’s humanity and potential regardless of any labels attached to them.

Her counselling draws on a client-centred foundation alongside cognitive and behavioural therapies, mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment theory, Polyvagal theory, motivational psychology and other creative practices.