Kim Smith
Calm, adaptable counselling for everyday struggles
About Kim
Kim Smith is a BACP counsellor with four years of experience. She presents a calm and warm manner that helps people feel heard when life feels difficult. Kim offers supportive, person-centred care and aims to make sessions easy to follow for worried parents and busy adults.
Her background is in Integrative-Relational Counselling, a degree-level qualification that blends ideas from several counselling theories. This lets her adapt how she works to match what each person needs.
Background and approach
She also has extra training in grief and bereavement which informs how she supports people facing loss. Kim focuses on practical conversation and steady emotional support. She helps people talk through stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship and intimacy concerns, and issues around parenting and family strain.
She also addresses sleep and eating difficulties, self-esteem, anger, and coping with life changes. Other areas of focus include attachment and abandonment concerns, body image and eating-related matters, chronic illness or pain, caregiver stress, and communication or commitment issues. Her work attends to trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and the emotional impact of major life transitions.
Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Kim aims to work collaboratively, helping each person identify goals and small steps they can take between sessions.
What Kim works with
Sessions & fees
How Kim’s approaches work online
Kim works from an integrative-relational framework, blending a few evidence-based techniques to fit each person. One common strand is relational work, which focuses on building a trusting connection so people can talk openly about difficult feelings and relationship patterns. This helps when intimacy, attachment or communication problems are causing distress.Another thread is grief-focused practice, which supports people through loss by creating space to name emotions, remember what matters, and find practical ways to carry on day to day. This approach can be helpful for bereavement, caring-related strain, or adjustment after illness or major change.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kim will discuss options with each person, try ways of working that match their goals, and adjust methods as needs shift. She aims to agree on clear aims and small, manageable steps between sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues for fuller conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit brief check-ins or days when written reflection feels best. These options make it easier to fit therapy around family life, work and other commitments.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
