Keely Strange , BACP

Keely Strange works primarily in the disability sector across several UK universities, providing one-to-one support that helps students balance study demands and everyday life. She supports people facing a wide range of barriers, including depression, anxiety, PTSD and ADHD, and adapts her approach to the individual needs of each person she meets. Her university work often involves remote contact by telephone and video, and she continues to offer one-to-one counselling outside of her employment.

Since qualifying as a counsellor, she has built a private practice focused on creating a warm, non-judgemental space where people can explore their feelings and make sense of difficult experiences. In her day-to-day role she also carries welfare responsibilities for colleagues, offering anything from a brief supportive conversation to longer, more in-depth work. The common aim is to help people increase self-awareness, manage emotions and behaviour more effectively, and improve their life and work environments.

Keely brings dedication and clear professional boundaries to her work, and she describes finding it rewarding to witness positive change and growth. Her experience includes telephone counselling, face-to-face clinic work, home visits, and supervising arrangements and safeguarding procedures to support those contacts. She has worked with addiction, domestic violence, self-harm, OCD, anger management, loss and grief, and relationship difficulties, using empathy and listening skills to help people access emotions and build confidence.

She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and an accredited member of NCPS, and she attends regular fortnightly supervision to reflect on and evaluate her caseload. Over nine years of practice she has accumulated hundreds of counselling hours and remains flexible with the hours and formats she offers to meet individual needs.