Kim Forbes
Helping people find their authentic self
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About Kim
Kim Forbes is a BACP counsellor with five years' experience supporting people through difficult life moments. She aims to help clients become their authentic selves and reduce fear and anxiety. Kim uses a warm, empathic approach and offers respect and compassion in sessions.
Clients can expect a person-centred style that prioritises listening and understanding. Kim combines this with practical tools from cognitive behavioural approaches and other therapies to help people manage stress, anxiety and low mood.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and focused on what matters most to the client. Her background includes work with relationship and intimacy difficulties, grief and trauma, and issues connected to sexuality and identity. She also supports people facing addiction, sleep problems, eating concerns and the strains of caregiving and serious illness.
Additional areas of focus include abandonment, attachment issues, codependency and communication problems. Kim commonly helps people coping with major life changes such as divorce or bereavement, and those dealing with work-related stress and compassion fatigue. Her style is steady and non-judgemental, aiming to build trust so clients can explore difficult feelings and test new ways of coping.
Sessions are tailored to each person’s goals and pace. Kim will work collaboratively to set clear aims and offer practical steps between meetings. If you are thinking about therapy, she supports clients from different places, and the first step is a short matching process to get started.
At a glance
- Years practising
- 5
- Registered with
- BACP
- Registration number
- 384960
- Languages
- English
- Approaches include
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy
- How sessions happen
- Online, by video, phone or messages
Details are as listed on Kim's public professional profile. You can check any number with the professional body.
What Kim works with
Everything Kim lists, in their own terms.
- 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 works online
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kim will discuss different methods and decide together with the client which fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted over time as needs change.
Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm the available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a lunch break and reducing the need to be on camera for every meeting. Registered or accredited professionals often adapt techniques so practical strategies, reflective conversations and emotion-focused work all translate to remote sessions when appropriate.
Questions and answers
What concerns does Kim commonly work with?
She works with a wide range of worries including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma, addiction and eating or sleeping problems.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Kim uses a person-centred, empathic style and adds practical methods from cognitive behavioural and emotion-focused approaches when helpful.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has five years' experience working with people on relationship difficulties, grief, trauma, anxiety and related issues.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
Kim holds BACP accreditation and practises in the United Kingdom.
Are sessions available in other languages or countries?
Sessions are offered in English and she does accept international clients.
Which session formats does she offer?
The original biography does not list specific session formats; please confirm current session options when arranging a booking.
How are fees handled?
Costs vary by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
What do I do to get started?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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