About Kim
Kim Smith is a BACP counsellor who works with adults and young people aged 16 and over. She brings four years of clinical experience and a calm, compassionate presence to each session. Kim aims to make it easier to talk about difficult things and to find practical ways forward.
She trained in Integrative-Relational Counselling, which means she blends different approaches to suit each person. She has also completed additional training in grief and bereavement, and uses that background when people are coping with loss.
Background and approach
In sessions Kim focuses on building a strong working relationship first. She listens for your priorities, your strengths and the patterns that get in the way. Together you explore small, realistic steps to reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day functioning.
Kim supports people dealing with stress and anxiety, low mood, parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, trauma and abuse, and related difficulties such as sleep, eating and self-esteem. She also helps with career questions, compassion fatigue and life transitions. Her style is straightforward and evidence aware.
She will adapt methods to suit your goals and comfort level, and encourages open discussion about what is and isn’t helpful as therapy progresses.
Therapeutic approaches and online flexibility
Kim uses an integrative-relational approach that combines methods to match each person’s needs. This can include talking therapies that focus on understanding patterns in relationships and current life, helping with issues like anxiety, low mood and relationship difficulties.She also draws on grief and bereavement work when someone is coping with loss, offering space to process emotions and to find practical ways to manage day-to-day life. These approaches aim to be straightforward and goal-focused while keeping the therapist-client relationship central.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kim explores your goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, and then collaborates with you to try methods that fit. That process is flexible and reviewed as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging so people can choose what suits them best. Video helps with face-to-face conversation, phone calls are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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