About Kim
Kim Wilksch is an Accredited Social Worker with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW). She draws on both professional training and personal life experience to help people facing anxiety, stress, grief and major life changes. Kim writes plainly and listens carefully to understand what matters to each person.
Kim uses a mix of practical tools and conversation to help people manage daily strain. She helps develop communication strategies, self-care plans and ways to cope with chronic pain or illness.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with depression and the emotional effects of separation or family difficulty. Her lived experience includes supporting survivors of domestic and family violence and living with chronic pain. Those experiences inform how she approaches care and what she focuses on in sessions.
Kim also offers faith-informed support for people who want it, and provides non-religious support for others. Clinically she draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy alongside attachment-based and client-centred practices. Mindfulness, motivational interviewing and psychoeducation are often part of the work where they fit the person’s goals.
Kim describes herself as strengths-based and person-centred. She aims to build practical skills and small habits that make daily life easier. People can expect straightforward language, gentle challenge and support to try new ways of coping.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and to take action guided by personal values. It is often useful for anxiety, worry and coping with major life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical skills to reduce avoidance and manage symptoms. It fits well when someone wants concrete strategies for anxiety or depression. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connections and can help people improve communication and feel safer in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kim will discuss different methods and together with each client choose what fits their goals, needs and preferences. The choice can change over time as goals shift and progress is made.
Online formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options provide flexibility to fit sessions around work, family and health needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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