About Kim
Kim McCloskey is a counsellor with 15 years of experience based in the United Kingdom. She is registered with the BACP and NCPS and offers practical support for people dealing with stress and anxiety. Kim aims to create a respectful, compassionate space where clients can begin to make changes at their own pace.
She helps people who are facing depression, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, and low self-esteem. Kim also supports those coping with life transitions and ADHD, and she has wider experience with chronic illness, bereavement, domestic violence, and relationship issues such as infidelity and separation.
Background and approach
Her background includes several years teaching counselling and working as a lecturer, which informs her clear, structured way of working. Kim uses a person-centred approach that puts the client's concerns at the heart of sessions.
She also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to address unhelpful thinking patterns, dialectical behaviour ideas to manage strong emotions, emotionally focused methods to look at feelings and relationships, and hypnotherapy where appropriate. Treatment plans are tailored to each person’s needs and goals. Sessions are practical and conversational.
Kim listens, reflects, and offers tools you can try between meetings. She encourages gradual steps and offers support during difficult moments. People who choose Kim can expect a straightforward process to begin.
She accepts international clients and works in English, offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
Approaches that guide online counselling
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and understanding your experience. The therapist offers empathy and reflection to help you find your own solutions, which can be helpful for stress, anxiety, grief, and low self-esteem.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact. It introduces practical techniques to test unhelpful thoughts and build new routines, which many people find useful for anxiety and depression.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, DBT, teaches ways to manage intense emotions and improve coping skills. It includes techniques for distress tolerance and emotional regulation that can help when feelings feel overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and day-to-day challenges and suggest methods that suit the person. This is a collaborative process and plans can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility and makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, written reflections, or ongoing contact between scheduled meetings. Many people appreciate being able to choose the format that fits their routine and energy levels.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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