About Kim
Kim Speake is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She uses a straightforward, compassionate style and aims to make sessions feel calm and approachable. Kim has three years of professional experience and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Clients often come with worries about relationships, trauma and abuse, or low self-esteem, and she helps people talk through those concerns.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing addictions, intimacy-related issues, eating or sleeping problems, anger, depression and challenges linked to ADHD. Kim works in short, practical steps. Sessions look at what is getting in the way now and what can be changed.
Conversations cover coping skills, communication patterns and ways to rebuild confidence after difficult events. She also pays attention to areas such as attachment and abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, and problems with control or commitment. These are discussed in simple terms and with an aim to make everyday life easier.
People can expect a supportive space to name what is hard and to try new ways of responding. Kim encourages small, manageable goals and checks in on progress. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Kim draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage anxiety and related problems. One useful approach focuses on building coping skills and practical strategies to reduce anxious reactions and improve sleep and daily functioning. This helps when worry or stress makes it hard to get through the day.Another common approach looks at relationship patterns and attachment concerns. Sessions help people notice repeated habits around closeness, control or avoidance and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Kim will work with each person to choose methods that suit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts plans as progress is made. The first few sessions often focus on what feels most urgent and what change would matter most.
Online therapy offers flexible options that fit modern life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is useful. Phone sessions suit someone who needs a shorter check-in or has limited bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for day-to-day support, homework or quick reflections between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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