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Get to know Kit
Clinical psychologist Kit Halliday has a passion for working with people who have experienced marginalisation. This includes (but not limited to) LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent and disabled people, as well as those experiencing racial prejudice. Kit strives to bring an intersectional lens to all they do, thinking carefully and learning gratefully about the ways that any one person may experience multiple kinds of marginalisation.
Kit is experienced and trained in trauma-informed, neurodiversity-affirming therapy. In a therapeutic setting, Kit uses a positive psychology lens to focus on the inherent strengths of each person to empower lasting change. Sessions are tailored to the individual, drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Schema Therapy and Motivational Interviewing techniques.
“There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.” ― Tara Brach
Kit is also trained in Circle of Security, an attachment-based parenting program designed to support parents to understand their child’s emotional world and to support their child to express their emotions in ways that feel comfortable for them.
Kit is a queer, neurodivergent, practitioner with a lifelong passion for healing practices in humans and other animals. Kit started their career releasing rehabilitated wildlife in the primary rainforests of Central America. These days Kit works much closer to home, combining their lived experience and their passion for healing work.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
EMDR
Mindfulness
Motivational Interviewing
Person/Client Centred Therapy
Schema
Kit’s Tip: Know Your Five Core Values
Life can certainly throw us curve balls leaving us lost and directionless. It is, in fact, an essential part of growth – a core component of becoming a resilient and grounded adult. One way to find a compass for direction in all the noise is to know and use your core values.
Values are not achievable goals but instead are guides for the actions that give our lives meaning. Values can help us to know how we want to treat ourselves, others and the world.
When we are scared, we can act with courage, when we are tired, we can act with compassion, when we are ashamed, we can act with integrity.
Values give us the ability to be the best version of ourselves in any given circumstance.
Find a long list of values and whittle it down to your top 5 (I know, it’s REALLY hard to only have 5 but you have to be able to remember them!)
Make sure one of them is the core of who you know yourself to be (e.g. that you strive to always act with integrity or authenticity) and one is who you are striving to be (to act with compassion or kindness at times of stress).
Make sure you make room for something you really want to be a part of your life that has been long forgotten (like fun or play!).
In times of struggle turn to your top 5 and ask for guidance. Write them where you can see them. Take a photo of them and put them on the screen of your phone or the back of the toilet door.
Knowing your values, the core of who you are, will mean that you are proud of your choices even in times of great confusion or distress.
Outside The Therapy Room…
When they’re not at work you can find Kit elbow deep in clay, swimming in a natural body of water, hiking into a forest or creating art with their energetic 4-year-old.
Currently Reading: “The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power Of Radical Self-Love” – Sonya Renee Taylor
My Therapy Song…
Queen – I Want To Break Free