Keely Strange, BACP

Keely Strange works across the disability sector within several UK universities, providing one-to-one support that helps students manage study demands alongside everyday life. She supports a wide range of learning and life barriers, including depression, anxiety, PTSD and ADHD, and has adapted much of this work to remote formats such as telephone and video calls.

Alongside her university roles, Keely maintains a private counselling practice offering one-to-one sessions. Her approach is warm and non-judgemental, aimed at creating a space where clients can explore feelings and emotions and increase self-awareness. In her day-to-day employment she also carries welfare responsibilities for colleagues, offering everything from brief supportive conversations to more in-depth discussions to help people understand and manage their emotions and behaviour more effectively.

Keely is committed to clear boundaries through agreed contracts and has observed positive changes, growth and development as a result of her interventions. She has experience working with addiction services and has managed client caseloads using administrative oversight and solution-focused methods. In university settings she supports students facing anxiety, panic, ADHD, autism and other mental and physical health challenges so they can progress toward undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications.

She has extensive experience as a telephone counsellor, which has strengthened her listening skills when visual cues are absent, and she also provides person-centred face-to-face counselling when covering clinic duties. Her clinical work has addressed relationships, domestic violence, abuse, self-harm, OCD, depression, anger management, loss and grief, among other issues. Feedback from clients highlights that she is approachable, easy to talk to and able to remain calm in difficult situations.

Keely offers sessions at home and can arrange home visits while following safeguarding procedures. She respects personal nature of sessions and data protection, attends regular fortnightly supervision to review and reflect on her caseload, and maintains flexibility in her working hours. She is a member of BACP and an accredited member of NCPS.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Keely draws on client-centred work to place the person and their experience at the heart of therapy, offering empathy, acceptance and active listening so clients can explore emotions and build self-understanding; this approach often helps with relationship issues, self-esteem and coping with life changes.

She also uses solution-focused methods that concentrate on identifying practical steps and small achievable goals, which can be useful for stress, anxiety and situations where clients want focused, goal-oriented change.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Keely works with each person to explore which methods fit their needs, goals and preferences, adapting sessions as understanding grows so the therapeutic plan reflects what works best for the individual.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, offering flexibility to fit around study, work and daily life. These formats make it easier to access regular support from a registered professional without the need to travel, and they allow sessions to be scheduled at times and in settings that suit each client.