Kristi Domeney, BACP

Kristi Domeney is a BACP registered child and adolescent psychotherapist who works across primary and secondary school settings as well as with PCN clients. She supports children, young people and parents, working with ages from 5 to 25 to address difficulties such as anxiety, stress, self-harm, trauma and abuse, attachment challenges, and the needs of children in foster care. Kristi has additional training to support neurodiverse individuals and uses a range of clinical tools, including the PANDA approach, to tailor interventions to each client's needs.

She offers a kind, reflective space where therapeutic work can include art and play alongside conversation, and she provides both short and long term therapy contracts depending on what is needed. Practical coping strategies and regulation techniques are used when clients are experiencing heightened anxiety or dysregulation. Kristi recognises that family struggles can feel isolating and overwhelming, and she frames reaching out for help as an important first step toward making positive change.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Kristi draws on attachment-based work to explore how early relationships and patterns of connection affect feelings and behaviour - this approach is useful for attachment issues, family struggles, and understanding relational responses. She also uses client-centered therapy, which prioritises the client's own experience and pace and focuses on empathy and collaboration to support self-understanding, coping with stress, and building self-worth. Psychodynamic therapy is used to look at longer-standing patterns and unconscious influences that can underlie repeated difficulties, which can help when exploring trauma, relational patterns, or personality-related concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Kristi works collaboratively with clients and their families to identify which methods fit best with their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adapts the work as progress and circumstances change.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options can make it easier to schedule sessions around school, work, and family life and help maintain continuity of support when in-person meetings are not possible. Registered professionals and therapists can use these formats to provide accessible, consistent care tailored to each client's situation.