Kairos Consultancy (N.I.)

Practice

Services include:

Art Therapy / Art Psychotherapy

Counselling / Psychotherapy

Supervision

Eco Practice

Values include:

My practice

If you are seeking therapy, my practice is fully booked, but you may also find counsellors / psychotherapists via BACP's Therapists Directory or art therapists / art psychotherapists via BAAT's Find an Art Therapist service.

My therapy practice includes regular sessions of either art psychotherapy or counselling / psychotherapy, normally weekly for an hour. Initially, we would have a conversation to see if my service and availability are suitable for your needs and preferences. An assessment meeting or meetings helps us both see if the therapy can start. If so, a contract is agreed and therapy normally proceeds weekly for a period of time which is agreed and reviewed collaboratively. Typically, this is 6-12 weeks and can be longer up to a year or more.

Art Therapy / Art Psychotherapy:

I am an Art Psychotherapist (HCPC Registered) and I work with:

Clients: adults, children and young people.
Individuals and groups.
A wide range of creative media, including: paints, clay, pastels, collage, found objects, 3D construction, natural media, fabrics, sand tray, play, performance art, digital art.

My approach is pluralistic / integrative, with a core orientation which is person-centred and trauma-informed. I work collaboratively, aligning with co-production principles and practises. My work is also informed by humanistic, systemic, environmental, psychodynamic / attachment, existential / transpersonal, & CBT theories.

Counselling / Psychotherapy:

I am a BACP Registered Senior Accredited Counsellor / Psychotherapist (aligned to SCoPEd Column C) and I work with:

Clients: adults, children and young people.
Individuals.

My counselling / psychotherapy approach is pluralistic / integrative, with a core which is person-centred, and trauma-informed. I work collaboratively, aligning with co-production principles and practises. My work is also informed by humanistic, systemic, environmental, psychodynamic / attachment, existential / transpersonal, & CBT theories.

Supervision:

I am a BACP Registered Senior Accredited Supervisor and I work with:

Supervisees who are registered counsellors / psychotherapists, arts therapists, related professionals, students.
Individuals and groups.
Reflective practice. Creative approaches in supervision.

For practitioners wishing supervision, we would have a conversation to see if my supervision service and availability are suitable for your needs and preferences and for the requirements of your Register and any agency involved. An assessment meeting or meetings helps us both see if supervision can start. If so, a contract is agreed and supervision normally proceeds monthly for a period of time which is agreed and reviewed collaboratively. Regulatory and professional body requirements are adhered to.

Eco Practice:

In all the above, my work is informed by:

Eco-practice / eco-supervision.
Nature-based and environmental therapeutic approaches & Earth-caring values.

My approach

Counselling / Psychotherapy: my approach is pluralistic psychotherapy, with a person-centred (BACP) core.
Art Psychotherapy: my approach is pluralistic art psychotherapy, with a person-centred (HCPC) core.
In both of these professions, my practice is trauma-informed and I work collaboratively, aligning with co-production principles and practises.

Practice in both counselling / psychotherapy and art therapy / art psychotherapy requires "a coherent approach" (BACP, 2026; HCPC, 2023). A coherent approach means that whilst their work draws on various theories, interventions and styles, a practitioner must be able to clarify how these are integrated into a consistent way of working. They must be able to justify their choice of interventions and give a clear rationale for their practice. The practice must be evidence-based and fit within the parameters of their Register and profession. In counselling, the range of practises used must "make a coherent whole" (BACP, 2026).

NB. See the page on Trauma Informed Pluralistic Practice for more details of my coherent approach and integrative framework in both counselling / psychotherapy and art psychotherapy.

July 2026

Tree metaphor:

a coherent approach

with a CORE of good governance

supporting an
INTEGRATIVE FRAMEWORK guiding

diverse ELEMENTS

References

BACP (2026) Registered to accredited ... application guide. (various Routes) Lutterworth: BACP. https://www.bacp.co.uk/membership/accredited-membership/

"If you use different approaches, explain how you bring these together to form a consistent way of working. Consider the different theories that underpin these concepts
and how they sit together with your main theoretical base. Explain what prompts your use of interventions from these different approaches and how you bring them together
into a coherent approach.
For example, if you say; ‘my core approach is person-centred but I also use CBT techniques when appropriate’, that doesn't tell us how you bring these two very different approaches together to make a coherent whole, or what ‘when appropriate’ actually means." (BACP, 2026)

HCPC (2023) Standards of proficiency -Arts Therapists. London: HCPC. https://www.hcpc-uk.org/standards/standards-of-proficiency/arts-therapists/

"12. understand and apply the key concepts of the knowledge base relevant to their profession"
"12.10 employ a coherent approach to the therapeutic process"
"12.16 understand that, while art therapy has a number of frames of reference, they must adopt a coherent approach to their therapy, including the relationship between theory, research and practice and the relevant aspects of connected disciplines"