Melanie Kennedy, BACP
8 years in practice
Melanie Kennedy is a BACP-registered counsellor with eight years of experience.
License and registration
- BACP
- 374366 · expires May 2026
- Years in practice
- 8
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Melanie
Melanie Kennedy is a BACP-registered counsellor with eight years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling anxious, stressed, low in confidence, or struggling with relationship and intimacy questions. She aims to listen without judgement and talk through what matters to each person.
Melanie adapts sessions to suit individual needs. She uses approaches that help people understand their emotions, notice unhelpful patterns, and try small practical changes. Conversations are paced to suit whether someone needs short-term coping strategies or deeper emotional work.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with people managing grief, trauma, addiction and long-term health challenges. She also supports those dealing with career stress, parenting strains and complex attachment or abandonment concerns. That range comes from seeing many situations over several years.
Melanie draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas alongside cognitive and client-centred techniques. These tools are chosen to match what a person brings to sessions rather than as fixed rules. Sessions are offered across a range of online formats so people can fit therapy around work, caring and other commitments.
The first step is a short questionnaire to match needs and then booking a suitable time.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Melanie lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Melanie names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How these approaches work online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and make sense of strong feelings that cause distance or pain. It supports people who want to improve emotional connection, reduce reactivity and feel understood. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy teaches practical ways to live with difficult thoughts and feelings while focusing on chosen values and actions; it can help with anxiety, low mood and unhelpful avoidance. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current trust, closeness and fears of abandonment, which can be useful for people with long-standing relationship or intimacy worries.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Melanie will explore what feels most helpful and adapt methods together with the client. The process is collaborative - goals, pace and techniques are agreed in conversation so therapy fits each person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit around life. Video calls let people see non-verbal cues and talk in depth. Phone sessions work when a quieter or lower-bandwidth option is needed. Live chat or messaging can suit brief check-ins, ongoing coaching-style support or times when writing feels clearer. These options give flexibility for people juggling work, caring responsibilities or different time zones.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems can be addressed here?
Melanie works with a wide variety of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma, addictions and problems with self-esteem.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She combines Emotionally-Focused Therapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centred listening. The style is collaborative and aims to help people understand feelings and try practical steps.
How long has she been practising?
She has eight years of professional experience working with adults in a range of emotional and relationship difficulties.
Where is she based and how is she credentialled?
She works from the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Can I have sessions in another language or from another country?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Melanie offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How are fees and payments arranged?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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