About Kim
Kim O'Brien is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience and registration with BACP and NCPS. She works with people facing stress and anxiety and helps those coping with trauma, abuse, grief and addictions. She also supports clients with intimacy-related concerns and relationship difficulties.
Kim aims to make the first step into therapy straightforward and respectful of each person's strengths. Kim takes a down-to-earth, person-centred approach.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters to the individual and build on practical tools. She uses straightforward cognitive behavioural (CBT) techniques when helpful to challenge unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of thinking. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at past patterns that repeat in the present.
In sessions Kim helps people identify coping strategies for overwhelming feelings. She supports work on self-esteem, boundaries, and communication skills. Where trauma is part of the picture, she uses trauma-focused methods to pace the work and reduce reactivity.
Therapy is conversational and goal-orientated. Kim encourages small steps that fit everyday life and checks progress together. Her manner is calm and supportive, with a focus on practical changes.
If someone is unsure how to start, Kim explains the process and helps set clear, achievable goals. She welcomes people from different backgrounds and works with international clients in English.
How Kim's approaches work online and what to expect
Kim uses a person-centred approach that keeps the client at the heart of the work. This style focuses on understanding a person's experience, validating feelings and building on existing strengths to set realistic goals.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours. CBT is useful for anxiety, stress and changing patterns that keep difficulties going, and it lends itself well to online exercises and homework.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy. Kim works collaboratively to choose methods that fit a person's needs, goals and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping consistent support.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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