John Kinley
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About me
Have you been struggling to get on track? With everything going on in the world at the moment, it is little surprise that sometimes you feel overwhelmed, stretched or just plain exhausted. It can be hard to think of ways through. Taking a moment to talk through what you are feeling and how it is affecting you is a great place to start.
As a therapist, I have been described as warm, supportive, funny but also direct, and sometimes even challenging. Once we have set a goal for our sessions, I am relentless in pursuing it. To do this, I bring the knowledge gained through four degrees, multiple postgraduate clinical courses, hours of research and the cumulative experience of thousands of hours of work with clients.
Usually, we start with the present, discussing your current situation and what we can change today to improve the situation quickly. This will likely involve tackling any thoughts or behaviours you may be doing automatically that are not serving you. Sometimes, the present can be influenced by the past so we will explore this together, looking for old ways of thinking or behaving that might not work for you anymore. We will design a plan of action together to deal with all of these ad gets you moving forwards.
I work with a range of human experiences including:
- Low self-esteem and feeling down.
- Stress management including sustainable routines, self-care and wellbeing.
- Life fatigue including a lack of motivation, enthusiasm, drive and an unclear path forward.
- Men’s issues including, coping with emotions, dating and life in the modern world.
- I have also developed a particular interest in helping women who struggle with men and find them hard to deal with in their lives.
I am a fully qualified and insured Accredited member of the BACP. I work integratively, incorporating person-centred, CBT, psychodynamic theories but also draw on psychotherapeutic coaching techniques such as solution-focused coaching
Please see my website for more information.
Training, qualifications & experience
Work Experience
I have worked for many years with the UK's National Health Service (NHS). I delivered long term psychodynamic therapy at St Pancreas Hospital and then later, in the Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies scheme delivering targeted, short-term, evidence-based therapies in South London.
I specialise in Online work as this allows me to reach and help a wide and diverse audience, without geography being a constraint. I studied postgraduate to further specialise in Online therapies and coaching and have adapted my style to the video chat and text-based systems used online.
I have now worked with people across multiple continents, time zones, backgrounds, identities and presenting issues.
Qualifications
- MSc Psychological Research - Oxford University
- BSc (First Class Honours) Counselling - University of East London
- BA (Deans Honours list) Psychology & Behavioral Science- McGill University
- CPCAB Certificate in Online Counselling Skills
- Certificates in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety and Depression- Beck Institute
- Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society (MBPsS)
- Multiple postgraduate CPD qualifications in Online Therapy
- MBACP (accred) Accredited member of the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists
Member organisations
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred).
Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.
Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.
All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£65.00 per session
Free initial online session
Concessions offered for
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
Initial Assessment First Session Free
Fee £65 a session with 20 percent discount for block bookings via Paypal.
Registered with multiple Health insurance providers.
When I work
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Weekend afternoon and weekday evening sessions
