Dominic Kelly

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Online Therapy

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

Alongside my private practice, I spent three years working therapeutically with LGBTQ+ clients at ELOP (East London Out Project), a London-based LGBTQ+ mental health charity.

Growing up gay in a rural area, and later spending three decades living in London, has given me insight into both the isolation that can exist in rural communities and the complexity and contradictions that can exist within urban queer spaces and culture.

My training and interests explore intersectionality, systemic oppression - how class, race, gender, sexuality, neurodivergence and culture can shape the ways people experience themselves and the world around them.

I’m particularly interested in the patterns we develop to survive. Especially how the coping mechanisms developed and integrated into our day to day behaviour, impact and affect our relationships, identity, self-esteem and emotional life.

Before training as a therapist, I spent over twenty years working as an acting coach, educator and personal development coach. My work focussed on helping people move through emotional blocks, self-consciousness and limiting beliefs, while finding emotional freedom, and authentic connections to themselves. Many of the same themes that drew me to psychotherapy were already present in that work, and it continues to shape how I work today.

Sexual identity:

Gay
Other
Queer

Gender identity: I use another term

Gender history: Prefer not to say

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: No

Personal pronouns: He/Him

Qualifications - Links to websites:

Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist (Advanced Clinical Training)
TA East, London

UKATA Registered Psychotherapy Practitioner
UKATA

Volunteer Therapist - ELOP (East London Out Project)
ELOP

Website
dominickellytherapy.com

Instagram
@dominickellytherapy

Qualifications - Additional:

• Level 7 Psychotherapy Training in Transactional Analysis
• Trauma-Informed Practice Training
• Shame and LGBTQ+ Mental Health CPD
• Level 2 Autism Training
• Three years’ experience working therapeutically with LGBTQ+ clients through ELOP
• Over twenty years’ experience in coaching, teaching and personal development work
• First Class Degree, Royal Holloway University of London
• Extensive training in the Meisner Technique and performance practice

Experience and approach:

My approach is grounded in Transactional Analysis alongside trauma-informed perspectives. I’m interested in how people adapt to survive difficult experiences and environments, and how those adaptations can later become limiting patterns in relationships, identity and emotional life.

I have particular experience working with LGBTQ+ clients and queer-specific experiences, including:

• Shame, identity and self-acceptance
• Trans and non-binary experiences
• Polyamory, open relationships and alternative relationship models
• Kink, fetish and sex-positive therapy
• Chemsex, HnH, addiction and compulsive patterns
• Sex work, stigma and marginalisation
• Dating apps, intimacy, loneliness and belonging
• Rural LGBTQ+ isolation and visibility
• Family estrangement and conditional acceptance
• Anxiety, self-esteem and emotional overwhelm
• Attachment styles and repeated relationship patterns
• Experiences of narcissistic or emotionally harmful relationships
• Self-harm and suicidal thoughts
• Grief, neurodivergence and creative blocks

I currently offer online therapy in both short-term and open-ended work.

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