Kim Forbes
Helping people build more authentic lives
About Kim
Kim Forbes is a counsellor and psychotherapist with five years of clinical experience. She holds BACP accreditation and offers a warm, non-judgemental space for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, loss or relationship strain. Kim aims to help people move from stuck patterns toward more authentic, confident living.
She describes her way of working as person-centred and collaborative. Sessions focus on what matters most to the individual, with practical steps to manage stress, sleeping problems, addictions and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Conversations often address intimacy-related concerns, grief, trauma and the fallout from separation or life change. Kim also helps with attachment and abandonment issues, body image and communication problems. She uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to suit different needs.
The emphasis is on simple, do-able strategies rather than jargon. People are invited to bring everyday worries - career uncertainty, parenting strain, compassion fatigue or coping after illness. Kim pays attention to patterns of avoidance, control and dependency so clients can recognise choices and try new responses.
Work can include short-term problem solving or longer-term therapy depending on the person’s goals. Sessions are conducted in English and international clients are accepted. Kim offers a respectful, steady presence and aims to make practical change feel achievable rather than overwhelming.
What Kim works with
How Kim works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Kim integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy alongside an attachment-based, person-centred way of working. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts and still move toward valued goals, which can help with anxiety, avoidance and low motivation. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour and offers practical exercises to reduce worry, improve sleep and change unhelpful patterns.Her attachment-informed, person-centred stance pays attention to how early relationship patterns show up now. This helps when addressing issues such as abandonment, trust, intimacy and communication. Together the therapist and client decide which approach or blend will best match the person’s needs, goals and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online sessions can be delivered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video works well for in-depth conversation and non-verbal cues, phone calls suit those with limited bandwidth, and messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel while still working on clear, achievable goals.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
