Our Team
Kelly Royer
Kelly is a qualified and experienced psychotherapist with over six years of clinical practice and 12 years of experience in the mental health field. Previously, Kelly was the Counselling Manager at WISH, the former women’s mental health charity, specialising in trauma-informed therapy. Kelly works with adults from diverse backgrounds, addressing a wide range of issues such as women specific concerns, racial trauma, cultural issues, anxiety, depression, work-related challenges, trauma, and identity issues. She provides a caring and confidential space for clients, offering both short and long term online therapy using multiple therapeutic approaches tailored to a client’s needs. In addition, Kelly offers clinical supervision for counsellors and therapists seeking support with their client work. Her supervision style incorporates educational, supportive, restorative, and managerial elements tailored to individual specific cases. Kelly takes an integrative approach to supervision and client work using various therapeutic approaches.
Kelly is registered with the BACP.
Penny Bennett
Penny has nearly 20 years experience working in the women's mental health field, focused mainly in the charity sector. Her approach to practice includes integrative counselling that addresses the individual needs and concerns of each client. Penny is known for her ability to listen to, and support, the needs of each individual client. The last few years have been challenging for many, even distressing for some. Penny believes that now, more than ever, people need to find the space to reflect on difficult or painful areas in life and how these could change. Her approach, care and counsel helps clients to make the changes needed to heal and move forward in their lives. As a feminist, having worked in the women’s sector for many years Penny has a good understanding of issues faced by women.
In addition to her counselling experience, Penny is an expert in general health and well-being. She assists clients to look at their environments to reveal where improvements might be made and works with them to develop a path to achieve their goals.
Penny is registered with ACCPH and follows BACP policies and guidelines.
Ayesha Kapila
Ayesha is an integrative psychotherapist. She works with adults on a wide range of issues, including anxiety, depression, relational and sexual difficulties, trauma, grief, identity, self-esteem, and questions of meaning and belonging. She has specialist experience supporting women of the Global Majority navigating childhood trauma, relational wounds, and the impacts of systemic oppression.
Ayesha trained at the University of East London (PGDip in Counselling & Psychotherapy) and holds an MA from the Royal College of Art, London. Her background in art and culture informs her therapeutic work, particularly in using story, imagery, and language to help clients make sense of themselves and their experiences. She draws from psychodynamic and Jungian traditions, as well as somatic practices. With an interest in anti-capitalist forms of care, her inclusive and culturally aware approach helps clients reconnect with their voice, their rhythm, and their sense of possibility.
Ayesha is registered with the BACP.
Our counsellors
Our team also includes fully qualified, professional counsellors as well as volunteer counsellors: some qualified, others in the final stages of their training. Our counsellors come from diverse backgrounds and speak several different languages, enabling us to offer support that is inclusive and culturally sensitive. All our counsellors receive clinical supervision to support their practice and ensure that counselling is ethical and responsible. Our practice adheres to the BACP’s Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions.
Our approach
Our counsellors draw on a range of therapeutic approaches, including psychodynamic psychotherapy, person-centred therapy, and parts work, to support clients in exploring the connections between their feelings, thoughts, and life experiences. This helps clients understand the impact these experiences have on themselves and their relationships.
We provide a safe, confidential, and supportive space where clients can talk openly, gain new insights, and work through unprocessed emotions. Through this process, our counsellors help clients build self-awareness, develop coping strategies, and move towards the life they want — focusing on what gives their life meaning and purpose.