Kimberley Wheeler
Compassionate counsellor who listens and supports
About Kimberley
Kimberley Wheeler offers a straightforward, compassionate space for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or major life changes. She is a counsellor who listens first and helps people find their own answers. Sessions aim to be calm and practical so you can pace what you bring to the room.
Kim works from a humanistic, client-centred perspective where the person is central to the work. That means she focuses on understanding your experience and reflecting it back so you can make sense of it.
Background and approach
She also uses techniques from other approaches when they help move things forward. Her background includes supporting people affected by cancer and contributing to a suicide bereavement group. Those experiences shaped her approach to loss, long-term illness, and sudden change.
She draws on this when helping people manage grief, chronic health challenges and caregiver stress. Kim supports people with a wide range of concerns including low self-esteem, relationship and family strain, intimacy issues, parenting pressures, career stress and compassion fatigue. She also works with neurodiversity-related matters and with people exploring identity, adoption or attachment questions.
Sessions are conversational and non-judgemental. Kim aims to build a trusting relationship, slow things down when needed and help clients practise small, useful changes between meetings. She works in English and sees clients in the United Kingdom.
What Kimberley works with
How Kimberley works
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Sessions & fees
Client-centred care delivered online
Client-centred therapy focuses on meeting the person where they are. The therapist listens carefully, reflects what they hear and helps people explore their own values and choices. This approach is useful for anxiety, low self-esteem, life transitions and grief.Humanistic counselling emphasises the whole person rather than labels. It aims to build a trusting relationship and to help people reconnect with what matters to them. This can be especially helpful when navigating long-term illness, caregiver stress or identity questions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then decide together whether to stay strictly client-centred or to add other techniques. That collaborative choice is revisited as needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins and text messaging is useful for ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family or health commitments and provide flexibility in how support is accessed.
| 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
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
