About Kim
Kim Johnson is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who supports people dealing with stress, anxiety and trauma. She also helps those facing grief, sleeping problems and low mood. Her approach is calm and respectful and she aims to make first steps feel manageable for people who are worried about starting therapy.
Kim adapts conversations and plans to each person's situation rather than following a fixed script. She works in plain language and focuses on goals clients can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions often include practical strategies for sleep, coping with panic, and steps to reduce unhelpful thinking patterns. Her practice draws on client-centred work and cognitive behavioural techniques to help people identify patterns and try small behaviour changes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Imago ideas are used when relationship patterns or intimacy issues are a focus.
Mindfulness tools are offered to help with stress and attention difficulties. Kim has five years of experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP. That background informs how she balances listening with gentle structure during sessions.
She offers different formats so people can pick what fits their life. People who want to start are invited to a short matching questionnaire and can then schedule sessions that suit them. Kim works alongside each person to set realistic next steps and track progress from week to week.
How Kim’s approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience and responding with empathy and respect. Online sessions using this approach let the counsellor follow your lead, clarify worries and help you set practical goals that match your everyday life.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings and actions. In remote sessions this often means practising new ways of thinking, trying short behavioural experiments between meetings, and using simple worksheets or techniques during video or text exchanges.
Mindfulness therapies teach attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and stress management. These exercises translate well to brief check-ins by phone or messages, and can be practised between sessions.
Choosing the right approach happens together. The counsellor will ask about your goals and preferences, try methods that seem promising, and adjust the plan as you go. That collaborative process helps find what actually fits your life.
Online formats offer flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is suited to short check-ins, and text messaging can support ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit counselling into work, caregiving or medical schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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