Karly Smith

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Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 0UJ

About me

I work with adults who feel stuck in patterns they can't seem to break. Many have experienced difficult childhoods, unhealthy or abusive relationships, or have spent years putting everyone else's needs before their own.

They may struggle with attachment, boundaries, identity, trauma, addiction or neurodivergence, often feeling as though something is "wrong" with them.

Together, we make sense of these patterns with compassion, helping you understand why they developed and supporting you to build healthier relationships, greater self-awareness and a life that feels more authentically yours.

Training, qualifications & experience

  • BSc Psychology with Counselling
  • CPCAB Levels 2/3 Counselling Skills
  • Postgraduate Certificate Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy 
  • Postgraduate Diploma Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy 
  • MSc Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy 

Living Without Abuse

Working with survivors of domestic abuse, I collaborated with clients to manage the effects of trauma, abuse, unhealthy attachment patterns and anxiety or depression to reach a point where they felt they could live healthier, more boundaries lives going forward. 

Leicester Counselling Centre

Offering long-term therapy to clients presenting with a wide variety of issues including personality problems, difficulties owing to neurodivergence, Attachment issues and addiction and as an assessor for new clients.

Therapy Lounge Collective

As an Associate, I offer support to clients experiencing interpersonal issues. Often pertaining to problems communicating effectively, having healthy boundaries, Attachment issues and questions about their faith.

Member organisations

BACP
British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP)

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

British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy
Accredited Register Scheme

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British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy

Areas of counselling I deal with

Fees

£50.00 per session

Additional information

I offer concessions for students, blue light employees and those on low incomes.

I believe therapy should be accessible by all.

Further information

I offer integrative, trauma-informed psychotherapy for adults experiencing attachment difficulties, trauma, identity concerns, addiction, neurodivergence and relationship challenges.

Together we'll explore the patterns that once helped you survive and develop new ways of relating to yourself and others.

119 Dorchester Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE3 0UJ

Type of session

Online
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Karly Smith
Karly Smith