Xandra Kike Spence

Xandra works integratively, drawing on person-centred, psychodynamic, and cognitive behavioural (CBT) approaches rather than following a one-size-fits-all model. She adapts her work to suit each individual client, offering a collaborative space to explore experiences and make sense of what is happening in the present or the past.

Xandra has experience working with adults both face-to-face and online, including individuals in community settings and those in high-pressure work environments. She often supports clients who feel overwhelmed by stress, uncertainty, shame, or questions around identity. Her experience includes working with grief and loss, low mood, trauma, self-esteem, relationship difficulties, and risk. Her wider professional background also provides her with a strong understanding of responsibility, performance pressure, and resilience.

She welcomes working with people from all backgrounds and identities and strives to offer a space that is respectful, inclusive, and culturally sensitive. This includes, but is not limited to, people of different races, ethnicities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, relationship structures, and family backgrounds. Xandra recognises how social context, power, and lived experience can shape mental health and welcomes conversations about identity when they feel important to the client.

Xandra works ethically and reflectively in line with the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) Ethical Framework. She receives regular clinical supervision and holds professional indemnity insurance and up-to-date enhanced DBS certificates.