About Kim
Kim O'Brien is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of practice supporting people through stressful and painful life events. She aims to create a calm, respectful space where someone can talk things through and begin to make sense of what feels overwhelming. Kim sees stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and grief as common starting points for change and recovery.
Her work often focuses on intimacy-related concerns and relationship difficulties, including communication problems and issues around commitment or attachment.
Background and approach
She also helps people who are struggling with eating concerns, body image, anger, and self-esteem. Kim supports people dealing with family problems, divorce and separation, and the lasting impact of past abuse. Kim uses a mix of well-established approaches.
She draws on Client-Centred ideas to keep sessions person-focused, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, and Trauma-Focused methods when past events continue to cause distress. These methods are used in everyday language and practical steps rather than jargon. She holds BACP and NCPS credentials, which are listed as supplied.
Kim works with adults and accepts international clients. Sessions are offered in English and run by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. To begin, the site matching process helps people connect to a therapist.
Kim encourages a gentle, steady pace and works collaboratively to set goals and check what is helping as therapy progresses.
How Kim’s approaches work online
Kim commonly uses Client-Centred Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy when working online. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship, helping people feel heard and understood so they can explore their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at patterns of thought and behaviour and offers practical exercises to change unhelpful habits and reduce anxiety.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kim will discuss goals, preferences and what has or hasn’t helped before, and then she will agree a way of working together. That choice is reviewed as therapy progresses to make sure the approach remains a good fit.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when you want that connection. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a shorter break. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for ongoing check-ins or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to maintain continuity when location or time is a barrier.
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What this therapist works with
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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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