About Black Sheep Wellbeing
Where This Began
I’m Ken, the founder of Black Sheep Wellbeing. My path into counselling wasn’t straightforward — it was shaped by service, injury, graft, and years of supporting people in their hardest moments.
I began my working life in the British Army, where I found purpose, structure, and a sense of belonging that’s hard to replicate. Leaving the forces meant losing that camaraderie overnight, and like many veterans, I had to rebuild my identity from the ground up.
After the military, I transitioned into engineering, working in roles that included refrigeration, air conditioning, and technical service. Engineering taught me precision, problem‑solving, and how to stay calm under pressure. It also taught me how to walk into chaotic situations, assess risk quickly, and restore stability, skills that translate directly into trauma‑informed therapeutic work
How I Work
My work is grounded in a person‑centred, relational core — the connection between us is central to the therapy. Around that, I use an integrative framework informed by my psychology background, drawing from different therapeutic models depending on what you need and how you naturally process things.
No two people are the same, so no two sessions look the same.
Each session is shaped around you — your pace, your story, your nervous system, and what feels manageable in the moment. You don’t have to fit a model. The work adapts to who you are and what you bring.
Black Sheep Wellbeing exists for people who’ve lived through things that changed them: trauma, upheaval, loss, or simply feeling different from the world around them. It’s a space built on honesty, steadiness, and the kind of understanding that only comes from real‑world experience.
Why Black Sheep
Black Sheep is for the ones who don’t fit the mould. The ones who think differently. The ones who’ve had to be strong for too long. The ones who have survived more than they talk about.
Here, you don’t have to mask, perform, or explain yourself from scratch. You are met with steadiness, respect, and someone who understands what it means to rebuild after life knocks you sideways.
Working With People Who’ve Been Let Down by Systems
Before retraining as a counsellor, I spent years working in residential and frontline support settings. My work took me into environments where people were living through some of the hardest moments of their lives, including:
young people’s homes
disability services
autism and neurodiversity support
mental health and crisis environments
Being alongside people in these settings taught me what trauma really looks like in day‑to‑day life — the survival, the resilience, and the quiet strength it takes just to get through. It taught me how to sit with distress, how to listen without judgement, and how to support people who’ve been failed or overlooked by the systems meant to protect them.
Becoming disabled myself changed the direction of my life again. It forced me to slow down, rethink everything, and understand vulnerability from the inside. Instead of stepping away from support work, I brought all of my experiences together — military, engineering, residential care, disability, and frontline support — and retrained as an integrative counsellor.
I know what it’s like to rebuild. I know what it’s like to feel like the odd one out. I know what it’s like to carry things quietly because you don’t want to be a burden.
Black Sheep Wellbeing was created for people who feel like that.
The Heart of the Ethos
Black Sheep Wellbeing is built on the belief that belonging shouldn’t be reserved for the lucky few. It’s for people who’ve lived through hard things, carried more than they ever said out loud, and learned to survive in ways others don’t always understand.
This is a space for rebuilding — slowly, gently, and at your own pace. A place where you don’t have to perform, mask, or explain yourself from scratch. Where your experiences are met with steadiness, respect, and a therapist who understands what it means to feel like the odd one out.
Black Sheep Wellbeing exists so you don’t have to face things alone anymore. It’s here for people who are ready, in their own time, to find their footing again.