Laura Kirk, BACP

Laura Kirk is a BACP-registered psychotherapist based in the United Kingdom with three years of clinical experience and a further fifteen years working in the mental health field as a support worker. She draws on a range of somatic and energetic methods, including Gestalt-informed techniques, to help people tune into sensations in the body as a way of accessing emotions and memories that may be connected to trauma. This embodied work often leads into processing those experiences and learning simple ways to bring the body back to a calmer, more regulated state through increased self-awareness.

Working from a foundation of trust, openness and presence, Laura supports people through the challenges that keep them from feeling like their best selves, helping to identify and move past the blocks that hold them back. She describes herself as spiritual but not religious and brings that perspective to therapeutic work when it feels appropriate for the client. As a neurodivergent clinician, she has experience with trauma, anxiety, bereavement, isolation, and the changes many women face during perimenopause and menopause.

Laura also has practical experience supporting people with low self-esteem, ADHD, autism and dyslexia, and she is affirming of LGBTQ+ identities. She believes that each person is the expert on their own life and focuses on helping clients build self-awareness, recognise their strengths and claim credit for the change they create. In sessions she is empathic, compassionate, non-judgmental, authentic and grounded, while also offering gentle challenges when observations of incongruence arise to promote growth. BACP indicates membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, a professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK.