Graham Kennish, BACP

Graham Kennish, BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy), is a United Kingdom based therapist who offers a focused, short-term method designed to show progress within two or three sessions. He teaches a gesture-based approach that complements spoken work, guiding clients to use simple physical patterns to reduce tension and manage the pressures associated with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and other concerns.

Rather than depending on a long, slow-building relationship, Graham provides a warm and supportive introduction and then demonstrates how gesture can be used as an immediate tool to shift reactive habits. Over a small number of sessions clients learn to form a personal pattern of gestures that supports clearer thinking, calmer emotions and renewed self-confidence. Graham has worked with this specific method for nine years and brings 14 years of overall therapeutic experience to his practice.

After initial sessions, clients can practise the techniques at home with as much follow-up support from Graham as they prefer, until the new responses become habitual and the older patterns of reaction lose their hold. If the approach does not suit a client after the first session, little time is invested; if no benefit appears after two or three sessions, Graham does not delay clients in seeking an alternative route to help.