Carlie Machell-Kay

Carlie Machell-Kay NCPS offers support for stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, addiction, grief, intimacy-related issues and low self-esteem. She also helps with anger, depression, coping with life changes, compassion fatigue and ADHD. Carlie's work is practical and down to earth, aimed at people who want clear, steady support.

Carlie trained as a psychodynamic counsellor and uses that background to help people understand how past relationships shape current feelings and behaviours. She combines this with client-centred listening and narrative work to help people tell their story differently. Her approach is warm and adaptable, with therapy shaped around each person’s needs.

Before qualifying seven years ago she gathered long experience in related fields, including work supporting women's mental wellbeing and domestic abuse services. That background informs how she supports people affected by trauma and relationship harm. Carlie also has personal experience of neurodiversity and brain injury, which contributes to her empathy for people in those situations and for their families.

Sessions focus on helping people notice patterns, try small changes and build clearer ways of coping. Carlie aims to make therapy approachable and practical, offering steady support rather than quick fixes. She works from the United Kingdom and offers sessions in English.

For people looking for help with intellectual disability-related concerns, Carlie lists Intellectual disability among her areas of focus and can discuss how best to approach related issues. To start, readers should follow the site’s Start Therapy button and complete the short matching questionnaire to arrange a suitable time.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and creating a supportive space where people can lead the conversation. It helps with low mood, anxiety, relationship worries and parenting stress by allowing people to explore what matters to them at their own pace.

Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from their problems by telling and reworking personal stories. It can be useful for relationship patterns, identity questions, grief and issues such as addiction or shame.

Carlie uses these approaches alongside psychodynamic ideas about how past relationships shape current behaviour. She will work collaboratively to find the mix that fits a person’s goals and preferences, and will review the approach as therapy progresses.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into everyday life, for example by saving travel time or allowing brief check-ins around work or caregiving. Different session ways suit different needs, so it is important to confirm which formats are available before booking. Carlie aims to help clients arrange sessions that fit their schedules and practical needs rather than promise a specific service.