Laura Kirk , BACP

Laura Kirk is a UK-based psychotherapist registered with the BACP, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, bringing three years of clinical practice and fifteen years of experience working in mental health support roles. She integrates a spiritual but nonreligious outlook with somatic and gestalt-informed methods, helping clients tune into bodily sensations to access emotions and present-moment experiences that may be rooted in trauma. From there she supports clients in learning body-based regulation skills to move toward a calmer, more balanced state.

Her practice focuses on areas including stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting, self-esteem, relationships and family issues, sleep difficulties, anger, career concerns, depression, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue and ADHD. She also brings experience with abandonment, adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome, chronic illness and pain, caregiver stress, communication problems, dissociation, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, hospice and end-of-life issues, and intellectual disability.

Laura identifies as neurodivergent and works with people facing trauma, anxiety, bereavement, isolation and the transitions women experience such as perimenopause and menopause. She emphasizes that clients are the experts on their own lives and aims to help them increase self-awareness, recognise strengths and take ownership of change. She describes her approach as empathic, compassionate, non-judgmental and grounded, while also offering gentle challenge when needed to support growth. She welcomes the opportunity to accompany clients on their individual journeys.