About Kim
Kim Speake offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or low self-esteem. She helps people who are struggling with relationship problems, trauma and abuse, addiction, or changes that feel hard to face. Her approach is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping clients take small steps toward feeling better.
Kim has three years of professional experience working with people on issues like anger, depression, sleeping and eating problems, and intimacy-related concerns.
How Kim works
She is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, listed as BACP. That registration is noted as part of her background. In sessions she focuses on creating an open atmosphere where thoughts and feelings can be talked through without judgment.
She encourages practical strategies alongside talking, so people can try things between sessions and notice what helps. The emphasis is on attainable steps and steady progress. Her additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, body image, communication and control problems, and caregiver stress.
She also supports people dealing with separation, domestic violence, drug and alcohol addiction, compassion fatigue and ADHD-related challenges. Kim works with clients across the United Kingdom and accepts international clients in English. She uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to offer flexible ways to work together.
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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| 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
How therapeutic approaches work online
Two common evidence-informed approaches she uses focus on talking and practical change. One approach centers on exploring thoughts and feelings together to make sense of patterns that cause distress; this helps with anxiety, low mood and relationship difficulties. Another approach emphasises learning and trying small behavioural changes between sessions to improve sleep, eating habits, routines and coping skills for stress and addiction issues.Finding the right way of working is collaborative. The therapist will listen to a person’s goals and preferences, then suggest what to try first. Plans are adjusted as the client notices what is helpful, so the approach can change over time based on real progress.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people see facial cues and have a longer conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging helps people reflect between calls. These options make it simpler to fit sessions around work, family or other commitments.
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