About Kim
Kim Zepler is a humanistic counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She uses a conversational style and centres sessions on what each person is experiencing. She focuses on everyday worries as well as bigger life changes, including stress, anxiety and loss.
Kim helps people talk through relationship strain, grief and trauma without giving advice or sharing her own opinions. Her practice is trauma informed and she is comfortable working with sudden loss, abuse and serious accidents.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be warm and non-judgemental so people can speak openly about what matters to them. Her way of working is guided by the person in front of her. That means sessions follow the client’s priorities and move at a pace that feels right for them.
Therapy can include gentle questioning, creative exercises or simple mindfulness when useful. Kim trained as a humanistic counsellor and holds BACP accreditation, which is listed as BACP. She has three years of experience in this field and draws on Person Centred and Trauma-Focused approaches in her work.
She recognises that loss takes many forms beyond bereavement, such as relationship breakdowns, health changes or shifts in identity. Her goal is to help people make sense of those changes and find a way forward that fits their life. People often come to her when they are feeling stuck or have lost their sense of direction.
Her manner is down-to-earth and occasionally playful, while still offering focused support to help people explore difficult feelings and begin to heal.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. It helps people feel understood and supports them to find their own solutions for issues like anxiety, self esteem and relationship concerns.Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on the effects of traumatic events and helps people process upsetting memories and reactions. It is often used for those coping with loss, abuse or sudden life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options with each person and agree a way forward together based on needs, goals and preferences. Sessions can be adjusted as progress is made so the method fits the client rather than the other way round.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text based messaging. Video calls allow face to face conversation when visual contact helps. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check in is needed. Live chat and messaging suit people who prefer typed conversation or need flexible, on the go contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- 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
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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