Keely Strange, BACP

Keely Strange is a BACP-accredited counsellor with nine years of experience. She offers a calm, person-centred approach to help people understand and manage strong emotions. Keely creates a warm, non-judgemental space where clients can talk through stress, anxiety, relationship worries and issues around intimacy and jealousy.

She has extensive experience supporting people with depression, PTSD, ADHD and addiction, and also helps with grief, anger and work-related pressures. Much of her work has been in the UK university disability sector, supporting students with study and day-to-day balance so they can progress with degrees and postgraduate study. That role includes one-to-one support and welfare conversations that range from brief chats to longer therapeutic sessions.

Keely has worked by telephone, Skype and Zoom for several years, and has also practised face-to-face counselling when required. Her background includes telephone counselling where attentive listening is central, and clinic work covering person-centred methods. She describes her goal as helping people increase self-awareness and manage behaviour so life and work feel more manageable.

Clients can expect clear boundaries and an organised approach to sessions. Keely carries out regular fortnightly supervision and follows the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy ethical framework. She records extensive counselling hours over her career and draws on practical problem-solving alongside empathic listening.

She also has experience supporting people affected by family problems, domestic violence, adoption and foster care issues, and complex long-term health challenges. Keely aims to support growth, resilience and practical steps forward for each person she meets.

How Keely's approaches translate to online work

Keely uses client-centred methods that focus on listening and understanding each person's experience. This approach helps with anxiety, depression, relationship worries and feelings such as jealousy by making space to talk and reflect on what matters most.

She also draws on mindfulness therapy to help people notice thoughts and bodily reactions with less judgement. Mindfulness can be useful for stress, panic and managing intense emotions. Solution-focused therapy is used to set short-term goals and identify practical steps, which can be helpful when someone wants faster, action-oriented change.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals and preferences, and adapt methods collaboratively rather than imposing a single style. This means sessions can shift between listening, mindfulness exercises and solution-focused planning as required.

Keely has substantial experience working remotely by telephone, Skype and Zoom. If you are considering online therapy, check the available session options when you book so arrangements match your needs. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy around study, work or family life, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so people can get support from wherever they are.