About Kim
Kim O'Brien offers a straightforward, caring approach to therapy. She has three years of professional experience and holds BACP and NCPS credentials. She works from the United Kingdom and provides sessions in English, including to international clients.
Kim focuses on practical support for everyday problems. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addictions, and process trauma and abuse. She also assists with grief, intimacy-related issues, relationships, eating concerns, parenting pressures and anger.
How Kim works
Her work includes related issues such as attachment, codependency, body image and forgiveness. Her way of working emphasises listening first. Kim uses client-centred conversations to understand each person's story and strengths.
She combines that with techniques drawn from cognitive behavioural approaches and psychodynamic thinking when helpful. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Costs vary with location and a subscription model is used that can be cancelled at any time.
Kim aims to help people make small, useful changes and cope better with life transitions. She treats each person as the expert on their life and works collaboratively to set goals and try workable strategies. Getting started requires completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session.
Kim lists 4 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | BACP, NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that work well online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person's perspective and strengths. Sessions concentrate on listening, reflecting and helping people make clearer choices; this approach suits people who want a supportive space to talk things through.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns. It is often used for anxiety, stress, low mood and some addiction-related problems because it gives concrete skills to try between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, then tailor techniques from different approaches in a collaborative way.
Online sessions via video calls let people keep face-to-face contact when travel is difficult, while phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing or need flexible, on-the-go check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments, while keeping continuity across the course of care.
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