Meet the team

I believe that everyone has the capacity for growth and healing. As a counsellor, I aim to create a space where you feel heard and understood, while you’re facing life’s challenges—whether that’s anxiety, relationship issues, or a desire for greater self-understanding. My goal is to help you live a more genuine life, using a gentle, down-to-earth approach that meets you where you are.

I am a counsellor with over 25 years experience and previously had a career in finance and investment. Initially working with new mothers as a breastfeeding counsellor, I moved into general counselling and still retain an interest in nutrition and how it affects our mental health.

I provide a confidential and calm environment so you can safely explore issues that prevent you from enjoying life. I also help people avoid becoming overwhelmed by their work e.g. those in emergency services, and am a supervisor for other counsellors.

My name is Lucy Kenny and I’m a qualified counsellor and a member of the BACP.

As an integrative counsellor, I draw on a range of therapeutic approaches that consider the clients individual needs and their personal circumstances.  I work with adults, children, and adolescents. My approach to therapy is gentle, open, transparent, and non-judgemental.  Putting people at ease and creating a safe and confidential space where they feel accepted without judgement, is at the core of everything I do.

I am a qualified counsellor and clinical supervisor who works with adults, children, young people, and couples, supporting personal growth and emotional wellbeing.
I take a warm and collaborative approach to my work, sometimes incorporating creative elements to support clients in exploring their thoughts and feelings in ways that feel authentic and meaningful.
I also offer clinical supervision to both trainee and qualified practitioners. I provide a reflective, supportive, and professionally focused space where supervisees can explore their client work, develop their clinical thinking, and strengthen their confidence and ethical practice. My supervisory approach is relational and integrative, encouraging curiosity, self-awareness, and ongoing professional development.
Whether working one-to-one, within relationship therapy, or in supervision, I aim to create a safe, respectful, and compassionate environment. I finds it deeply rewarding to witness the positive changes in my clients’ mental health, as well as the development and confidence of the practitioners I support. 

I began my journey into counselling after being dissatisfied with my past employment in the aerospace industry, and have never looked back.

I feel honoured be in a position where I can be part of the healing process, helping others free themselves from being trapped in a cycle of negative emotions and find the pathway to be the person they truly are.

I am proud to be part of the Community Counselling CIC organisation as I share their core values that counselling should be available to all.

I have a real passion for counselling, and a genuine belief that counselling can have an amazing impact on a person.

I aim to offer a safe and confidential space to my clients, where I can help them explore and overcome difficulties and gain a greater understanding of themselves.

I also work in education, offering much needed therapeutic support to young people, to help them feel empowered and able to overcome challenges.

As a second-year student of integrative counselling I am training to support both adults and young people. I am committed to creating a safe and non-judgmental environment where clients can build trusting and secure relationships. I aim to empower clients to explore their challenges, develop resilience, and work towards their personal goals through active listening, creativity and evidence-based interventions that suit their individual needs.

I have 16 years’ experience working in the Early Help / Children Services sector giving me a solid understanding of working creatively and building trust with families. I aim to support clients to feel heard, understood and at their own pace, start to understand their own patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviours.

I am a student counsellor currently training in Integrative Counselling and with a passion for supporting individuals through life’s challenges. I draw on a variety of different orientations but my fundamental aim is to create a collaborative, safe, non-judgemental, and empathic space in which clients feel heard and valued and can grow their own self-understanding and resilience. Before becoming a counsellor, I have worked in various other sectors including outdoor education and healthcare, both of which have inspired me to seek further to deepen my understanding of how we can live more fulfilled lives, which let me to the counselling journey. Outside of counselling I enjoy time in nature (hiking, foraging or gardening), my own mindfulness practice, and climbing. I am glad to be able to be doing my placement with Wellington Community Counselling, as I feel aligned to their values, and as I myself have benefited from their services in the past. So, it feels appropriate to me, to be able to join Community Counselling, and in this way give something back to the local community. 

Hello, I’m Caroline formally, but please call me Cas, student counsellor. I’m delighted to be with Community Counselling as connection and community are important to me and I have met nothing but kindness here.
My aim is that our time together will allow you to gently explore your thoughts and feelings, with living more comfortably in mind. Whatever your challenges, I will walk alongside you.
I also work as a coach and group facilitator on topics around wellbeing, weight management and mental health.

I am training to be a psychodynamic therapist. I aim to offer a collaborative space where you feel heard, understood and able to explore things at your own pace. My approach is psychodynamic, so we may look at your past, including your childhood, relationships and significant experiences, to understand how they may shape your present-day experiences, while also staying curious about thoughts and feelings that may not be fully conscious. I am pleased to be part of Community Counselling CIC and to work within such a supportive setting.

Rhonda is and always had been a woman on a mission to do something useful about social inequalities and the injustices that arise from them in British culture. Her life’s work has taken from being a teacher to Access to Higher Education courses in the 1980s, to the first gender studies lecturer in the politics department of Exeter University in 1995, to her position as a social entrepreneur who is successfully running a CIC that provides free and affordable counselling, now in its 8th year.
But that’s not all. Rhonda’s journey began through her own mental ill-health in her early teens because of what she describes as being raised in a ‘wonky’ family, and her subsequent struggles with raising 3 children as a single parent. The skill and kindness of therapists across her life lead her to train as a counsellor so that she could also bring hope and courage into people’s lives. For Rhonda, the most important quest in life is to challenge the powers that be and keep strong in her convictions that inequalities in access to mental health support has to become a thing of the past..

I am retired after a career in the NHS, in an interesting range of non- clinical management roles, several of which were in mental health services, so I was very pleased to be asked to consider becoming a director of Community Counselling CIC. I saw its importance and value to the community and want to support it to succeed and develop.

As well as my role with Community Counselling CIC I am a trustee of a local domestic abuse grant-making charity and a member of the management committee of the local branch of ReadEasy, the adult literacy charity, and also a reading coach.