About Kim
Kim Forbes is a person-centred counsellor and psychotherapist with five years of experience. She holds BACP accreditation and works from a warm, empathetic stance to help people make practical changes. Kim aims to help people feel more authentic and less held back by fear or anxiety.
She combines person-centred listening with other approaches when useful. That can include cognitive behavioural techniques for managing anxious thoughts and emotionally focused ideas for relationship work.
How Kim works
Sessions are straightforward and calm, with respect and clear boundaries. Kim helps people talk through grief, relationship strains, intimacy worries and self-esteem concerns. She also supports those facing addiction, trauma and sleep or eating difficulties.
Work can cover career pressures, anger, compassion fatigue and coping with life changes such as divorce or bereavement. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, communication problems and blended family challenges. Kim also has experience with body image, cancer-related stress, caregiving strain and dissociation.
She tailors sessions to each person’s situation and goals. People meet Kim for video, phone, live chat or text-based sessions. English is used for all work and international clients are accepted.
Starting is a simple process of completing a short matching questionnaire and booking a session through the service.
Kim lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Kim works with
The areas below are the ones Kim selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Online approaches that aim to build clarity and connection
Kim uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and take steps that match their values. That can be useful for anxiety, stress and life transitions where action matters more than perfect thinking.Attachment-Based Therapy is used to look at patterns in close relationships. It helps people understand how early connections shape current trust, intimacy and communication, which is helpful for relationship or abandonment concerns.
Finding the right way of working is part of the process. Kim will discuss methods with each person and agree a plan based on needs, goals and preferences. The collaboration helps ensure sessions feel useful and relevant as work evolves.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is suited to longer therapy sessions and seeing non-verbal cues, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit around work breaks. Live chat and messaging work well for short check-ins or when someone prefers typing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent alongside daily life.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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