Kim Smith

Kim Smith is a BACP counsellor who works with adults and young people aged 16 and over. She trained in integrative-relational counselling and uses that mix to shape practical therapeutic work. Kim aims to make sessions warm, calm and easy to follow so people can talk about what is worrying them.

Kim has four years of practice and additional training in grief and bereavement. She draws on a range of evidence-based techniques and adjusts them to what each person needs. This flexible approach helps when problems are complex or overlap, such as anxiety with sleep disturbance or stress with difficult relationships.

Sessions focus on building a reliable working relationship first. Kim listens to what has happened, what matters now, and what a person would like to change. She gently tests different ways of working so the person can choose what helps most.

Practical tasks, simple skills and steady reflection are common in sessions. Kim helps people develop clearer communication, better coping tools, and ways to manage strong emotions like anger. She also supports people through loss, parenting strain, addiction concerns and changes in career or life stage.

Kim works in the United Kingdom and offers therapy in English. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and then arranges sessions according to the therapist’s schedule. The subscription model used for sessions can be cancelled at any time.

Approaches you might use in online sessions

Kim works from an integrative-relational basis, which means she draws on a small number of evidence-based techniques to match what each person needs. One common strand is grief-informed work, which helps people make sense of loss and find steady ways to manage strong feelings through conversation and paced tasks. Another is emotion-focused work that offers simple strategies to notice, name and regulate intense feelings such as anger or anxiety. These approaches aim to be practical and easy to apply between sessions.

Finding the right way of working is part of the therapy journey. Kim will discuss options and try different methods together, so the approach is agreed as a collaborative choice rather than imposed. Goals and preferences guide which techniques are used and how they are spaced over time.

If you are considering online therapy, check the current session options before booking as formats are not specified here. Many people find remote sessions helpful because they can fit appointments into work breaks, avoid travel time, or choose quieter surroundings. Others prefer shorter check-ins by phone when cameras are difficult or low-bandwidth conditions make video challenging. Discussing practicalities at the start makes it easier to arrange sessions that suit day-to-day life.