- Years in practice
- 5
- Registration
- BACP
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Grief
About Kim
Kim Forbes is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of experience. She uses a person-centred, compassionate style to help people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, grief or relationship strain. She speaks English and offers sessions online for people in the UK and internationally.
Kim aims to make therapy approachable and practical. Sessions focus on what matters now - easing stress, improving communication, managing difficult feelings and finding clearer direction.
Background and approach
She adapts her way of working to suit each person rather than following a fixed script. Her background blends talking therapies and life coaching. That mix helps when people want both emotional support and practical steps forward.
She draws on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of coping. People often come to Kim for relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, low self-esteem, addiction worries, or the aftermath of trauma and abuse.
She also works with loss, career change, sleep and eating problems, anger and compassion fatigue. Kim pays attention to attachment and abandonment issues when these come up. Sessions are delivered via video, phone, chat or text to fit different schedules and needs.
Kim encourages a gentle pace and collaborative planning so clients set goals they can work towards between sessions.
What Kim works with
Everything Kim lists, in their own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Kim helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Kim lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each counsellor names and does not check training records.
How Kim's approaches work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can help when people struggle with trust, abandonment or closeness. Client-Centred Therapy focuses on a respectful, empathic relationship where the client sets the pace and direction of work.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Kim will work with the client to decide which methods feel most helpful for their goals. She often blends approaches to suit the person rather than relying on a single technique.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or text messaging suit brief check-ins or people who prefer typing. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and allow steady progress even when travel or timing is difficult.
Questions people ask about Kim
What concerns does Kim commonly help with?
She helps with stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, self-esteem and addictions among other concerns listed in her profile.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is warm and non-judgemental with a person-centred focus that combines talking, coaching and practical tools.
What is her professional background?
Kim has five years of experience and a background in counselling, psychotherapy and life coaching.
Where is she based and what registration does she hold?
She is based in the United Kingdom and is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English and Kim accepts clients from outside the UK.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.
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