Diploma in Integrative Child and Adolescent Counselling
Four-year professional counsellor training completed in London.
Compassionate and creative counselling for children, teenagers, young adults and parents, grounded in attachment, trauma, relational and somatic-informed practice.
Kaya Winney is an integrative child and adolescent counsellor with over 18 years of experience supporting children, young people and families across education, mental health organisations and private practice.
She is a registered member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), specialising in attachment, trauma and relational work.
Kaya works with children from the age of five, teenagers, young adults and parents. She supports a wide range of emotional and relational difficulties, including anxiety, low mood, low self-esteem, anger, self-harm, difficulties with belonging and relationships, trauma and attachment difficulties.
She has particular experience working with neurodivergent children and young people, including those with autism and ADHD, as well as young people who may be at increased risk of suicide.
BACP Registered Counsellor
Years of Experience with Children and Young People
Supporting Children from Five Years of Age
University of Oxford Graduate
Kaya completed a four-year Diploma in Integrative Child and Adolescent Counselling in London. She also holds a Master's degree in Comparative and International Education from the University of Oxford, a Bachelor's degree in British Literature and is a qualified English teacher.
In June 2026, she completed Level 1 training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, further developing her trauma-informed and body-based approach to counselling.
Her professional background spans more than 18 years across education, mental health services and private counselling practice.
Kaya spent over five years working with Oxfordshire organisations, including Riverside Counselling Service, The Abingdon Bridge and OSARCC.
She was also part of the TOPIC research group at the University of Oxford. TOPIC stands for The Oxford Psychological Interventions for Children and Adolescents. The group's work focused on the prevention and treatment of anxiety disorders in children.
Alongside her counselling work, Kaya is a certified Reiki practitioner and is currently undertaking a year-long Reiki Master training. This reflects her interest in holistic approaches to wellbeing and the connection between mind, body and energy.
Four-year professional counsellor training completed in London.
Master's degree in Comparative and International Education.
Level 1 training completed in June 2026, supporting trauma-informed and body-based counselling work.
Certified Reiki practitioner currently undertaking year-long Reiki Master training.
Kaya's approach is integrative, creative and somatic-informed. She adapts counselling to each person's individual needs, personality and developmental stage rather than following one fixed method.
Kaya draws on different counselling approaches and adapts sessions to the child, young person or adult in front of her. The work is shaped around what feels appropriate, safe and helpful for each person.
Counselling may include talking, play, art, creativity and other forms of expression. This allows children and young people to communicate and explore their experiences when words may feel difficult.
Sessions may include mindfulness, movement, breathwork and other body-based approaches, alongside elements drawn from energy psychotherapy. These approaches can help clients notice physical sensations, emotions and nervous system responses.
Children do not always communicate emotional distress through words. Their experiences may instead be expressed through behaviour, play, relationships, physical symptoms or changes in how they relate to the world around them.
Kaya works with parents through individual parental consultations and joint parent-child sessions. This work can help families build understanding, emotional safety, communication and connection.
Kaya offers inner child work to adults who would like to explore longstanding emotional and relational patterns and develop healthier relationships with themselves and others.
Kaya's work is centred on emotional safety, genuine connection and respect for each client's individual experience.
Counselling creates a nurturing space where clients can understand themselves, process difficult experiences and grow.
At the heart of Kaya's work is a passion for helping children and young people feel seen, heard and understood. She also supports families to develop greater understanding, connection and emotional safety.
For Kaya, counselling is about much more than talking, coping or trying to fix a problem. It is about creating a nurturing space where clients can reconnect with their feelings and bodies, make sense of difficult experiences, process emotional pain and begin to change patterns that may be keeping them stuck.
Where relevant, the work may also involve recognising and changing patterns that have been carried through families and generations.
Kaya aims to help clients develop greater self-awareness, self-compassion, resilience and emotional safety. This can strengthen their relationships with themselves and others, help them embrace who they are and support them in feeling more confident in their lives.
Kaya values diversity and brings cultural sensitivity, openness and curiosity to her work. She has extensive experience supporting children and families from a wide range of cultural, ethnic and mixed-heritage backgrounds, as well as neurodivergent and LGBTQ+ young people. She aims to create an inclusive space where identity, culture and lived experience are respected and welcomed.
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