About Kim
Kim Poyser is a counsellor who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety and depression. She also supports those facing relationship strain, grief, trauma, eating and intimacy-related concerns. Kim works with people who are coping with life changes and those managing self-esteem, anger and long-term illness or pain.
She trained and practises using client-centred and solution-focused approaches. Sessions are shaped around what each person brings, with emphasis on clear, practical steps and listening that aims to make sense of difficult feelings.
Background and approach
Kim keeps things straightforward and direct so conversations feel useful from the first meeting. Kim has five years of professional counselling experience in independent practice. She is a member of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists - BACP - and has a background in pastoral support in further and higher education.
Prior to independent practice she worked for around 20 years in social care supporting young people and vulnerable adults. Her past roles include working as a solution-focused project worker with Barnardo's and offering online support with Childline. She has attended workshops on suicide, self-harm and wider mental health topics to broaden her practical skills.
Kim combines this background with a straightforward, compassionate style when planning sessions. People who choose Kim can expect a tailored plan and a collaborative dialogue. She aims to help clients identify small, achievable changes and to build clearer ways of coping.
Taking the first step is acknowledged as hard, and she focuses on making that step feel worthwhile.
How Kim’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening with empathy and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps when someone needs space to make sense of feelings and to be heard without judgement.Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on finding small, practical changes and identifying what works already. It is useful for people wanting quick, goal-oriented steps for problems such as anxiety, stress and coping with life changes.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The counsellor will discuss your goals and preferences and adapt methods to fit your situation, treating the plan as a collaboration rather than a fixed programme.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit counselling into a busy life. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits brief check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options allow for flexibility in timing and style while keeping the same therapeutic aims.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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