Kim Gregory
Calm, practical therapy for stress and relationships
About Kim
Kim Gregory welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure where to begin. She uses straightforward, calm conversation to help people sort out worry, stress, low mood, relationship problems and issues around identity and intimacy. Kim is based in the United Kingdom and holds BACP accreditation which she uses to guide her practice.
Her approach is practical and flexible. Sessions focus on what matters to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Kim listens closely, reflects back what she hears and helps people make sense of thoughts and patterns that get in the way of daily life. Kim draws on a blend of talking therapies and skills-based methods. She uses client-centred listening alongside cognitive behavioural ideas and mindfulness tools to help with anxiety, mood and coping skills.
Sessions can include gentle challenges to unhelpful thinking and step-by-step strategies to try between meetings. She also supports people working through grief, trauma and issues with self-esteem, body image, addictions, sleep and appetite changes, parenting pressures and work-related stress. Kim is familiar with concerns related to neurodiversity, attachment and long-term health conditions, and will adapt her pace accordingly.
People who meet Kim will find a collaborative listener who encourages clear goals and practical steps. Early sessions usually focus on what a person wants to change and how to make small, manageable moves towards that goal. She invites questions at any time and aims to make the process predictable and straightforward.
What Kim works with
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Sessions & fees
How Kim blends approaches for online therapy
Kim uses client-centred therapy to create a listening, non-judgemental space where the person sets the agenda and the work follows their needs. This approach helps when someone needs to feel heard and understood before trying new ways of coping.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy or CBT to identify unhelpful thinking and to try practical experiments. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression and patterns that cause distress because it focuses on small, testable changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and Kim works together with each person to decide what fits best. Sessions begin by clarifying goals and trying techniques, and the plan is adjusted as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters, phone sessions can be quicker or use less bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging suit short check-ins, written reflection or people who prefer not to use audio. These options offer flexibility so therapy can work around work, caring commitments and travel.
| 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
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
