Kingsley Boateng, BACP, NCPS
Calm, practical counselling for difficult life moments
About Kingsley
Kingsley Boateng is a UK-based counsellor who supports people facing anxiety, depression, grief and identity questions. He works with clients who feel overwhelmed, stuck or unsure how to move forward. His aim is to create a calm space where people can be heard and begin to make small changes that matter.
He describes his style as warm, collaborative and respectful. Sessions are shaped around each person’s pace and goals rather than a fixed method.
Background and approach
Practical steps and simple exercises are used alongside conversations about feelings and life patterns. Kingsley brings seven years of professional experience to his practice. He uses a mix of talking therapies and body-aware techniques, including somatic approaches that attend to how stress and emotion show up in the body.
This helps when emotions feel stuck or hard to name. He also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioural ideas to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try small, manageable changes. Attachment-informed work is used to understand relationship patterns and how early bonds influence current struggles.
Kingsley offers an affirming, non-judgemental space for LGBT and diverse-identity clients. He works in English and Akan and sees people from across the UK and internationally. He is registered with BACP and NCPS and uses those professional memberships as part of his practice framework.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how emotions appear in the body - for example muscle tightness, breath changes or sensation. Online sessions can include guided attention to bodily signals and simple grounding exercises to help people notice and settle physical stress.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and committing to small actions that align with those values. In an online setting this often means identifying one or two practical steps between sessions and checking progress together.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connection and trust. Online conversations can map those patterns and rehearse new ways of relating in everyday life.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss the options, try different methods, and shape sessions around the client’s needs, goals and preferences. Many people discover a mix of approaches works best and adjustments are made along the way.
Online therapy offers flexibility - video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving or travel. These formats let people access therapy from different locations and maintain continuity when life is unpredictable. The style of work and practical tools can be adapted to suit each format.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Akan