Kim O'Brien

Kim O'Brien is a UK-based counsellor with three years of professional experience. She works with people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or the fallout from trauma and abuse. Kim also supports those coping with addictions, intimacy concerns, relationship and family difficulties, and anger. She believes people carry strengths that help them move forward and treats clients with a warm, straightforward manner.

Her background includes practice using client-centred ways of working. That means sessions focus on the person’s priorities and pace, with time to talk and be heard. She also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques to help spot unhelpful thinking and make small, practical changes.

Kim uses psychodynamic ideas to look at repeating patterns that may come from earlier relationships. She can include trauma-focused methods when past events keep affecting daily life. Together these approaches offer a blend of talking, reflection, and concrete coping tools.

Sessions aim to be practical and collaborative. The therapist will help set clear goals and adjust the plan as progress is made. People come for short-term work to manage a specific issue or for longer reflection on deeper patterns.

Kim provides sessions in English and accepts international clients. If you decide to start, you will complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.

How Kim's approaches work in online counselling

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the person in the room. The counsellor listens closely, follows the client's lead, and offers a supportive space to make sense of things. This approach helps when someone needs time to talk through worries like anxiety, relationship strain or anger.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions link together. The work often includes practical exercises and short experiments to test new ways of thinking and behaving, which can help with stress, addictive patterns and low mood.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted if something is not helping, so people shape the therapy alongside the counsellor.

Session formats are not specified in the source biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when helpful, and offer more flexibility around work or family commitments. Registered or accredited professionals can use different approaches online and will explain what to expect at the first session.