Kim O'Brien
Supportive counsellor for life changes
About Kim
Kim O'Brien is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years of professional experience. She meets people where they are and offers calm, practical support for stressful times. Her approach is personable and straightforward, aimed at helping people make sense of what they are facing and find workable steps forward.
Kim helps with common struggles such as stress and anxiety, and with addiction and the after-effects of trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
She also supports people coping with grief, intimacy-related concerns, eating and body image struggles, and relationship difficulties. Her work includes help with parenting strain, anger, self-esteem and major life changes.
Her methods draw on client-centred therapy that focuses on the person’s own goals, cognitive behavioural techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns, and psychodynamic ideas that look at how past experiences shape present behaviour. She also uses trauma-focused work when the history of harm is a central issue. Sessions are practical and conversational.
Kim listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and offers straightforward tools and questions to try between meetings. She aims to make therapy feel useful rather than overwhelming. People who come to her can expect a collaborative process.
Work is paced to the individual, with attention to safety and readiness. For those wanting ongoing support, she can combine short-term problem-solving with deeper exploration over time.
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Sessions & fees
How Kim’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centred therapy places the person’s goals and experience at the heart of each session. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and works with the client to set priorities that feel meaningful. This approach helps when someone wants a gentle, person-led way of making changes.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing patterns of thought and behaviour that make things harder. It uses practical exercises and simple experiments to test new ways of thinking and acting, which can help with anxiety, stress and addictive behaviours.
Trauma-focused work concentrates on understanding how past harm affects current life. It uses careful, paced methods to reduce the hold that traumatic memories and reactions have, and to build coping skills for everyday triggers.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods to the client's needs, goals and preferences in a collaborative way. Plans can shift as progress is made and new priorities emerge.
Online sessions offer flexibility and practical access. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is preferred. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit into a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer shorter, written check-ins or want ongoing support between scheduled sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into varied routines and locations.
| 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
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP, NCPS
- Languages
- English
