Carlie Machell-Kay, NCPS

NCPS. 7 years' experience as a practising counsellor. Carlie Machell-Kay works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting pressures, addictions, grief and intimacy-related issues. She also addresses anger, self-esteem, depression, coping with life changes, coaching needs and compassion fatigue, and has a clinical focus on ADHD.

Carlie trained in psychodynamic counselling and uses that approach to look at how past relationships shape present thoughts, feelings and behaviour. She specialises in trauma and its effects, and has particular experience of relationship difficulties and domestic abuse settings. She also draws on client-centred and narrative methods when these fit what a person needs.

She has professional experience supporting women’s mental wellbeing and has worked in services for domestic abuse. Carlie also has personal experience of neurodiversity and brain injury, which informs how she listens to people and understands the practical impacts on day-to-day life. Her background combines longer-term therapeutic work and practical support in difficult circumstances.

In sessions she focuses on what people bring and how they make sense of it. That can mean talking about life events, tracing patterns that repeat, or working through the effects of trauma. Sometimes the work is more reflective; other times it is more focused on practical coping and problem-solving.

Carlie offers collaborative counselling where the client’s goals guide the work. She helps people clarify what they want to change and then chooses methods that suit those aims. She accepts international clients and works in English.

How Carlie’s approaches work for online counselling