Kim Forbes, BACP

Kim Forbes is a counsellor and psychotherapist with five years' experience. She holds BACP registration, and she combines person-centred work with practical talking therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety and relationship concerns. Kim describes her style as warm and non-judgemental, and she aims to help people take the first step towards change.

Kim helps with a wide range of issues including grief, trauma, depression, intimacy-related worries, and problems with self-esteem. She also works with relationship and communication problems, commitment and attachment concerns, and the knock-on effects of major life changes. Her background includes work around addictions, eating and sleeping difficulties, and caregiver stress.

In sessions Kim listens closely and reflects what she hears. She combines client-centred listening with tools drawn from cognitive behavioural approaches and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful patterns and try small changes. Emotionally-Focused Therapy and attachment-based ideas inform her work with relationship and intimacy issues.

People can expect a calm, compassionate space to talk through painful feelings or confusing choices. Kim encourages practical steps alongside emotional exploration, such as behavioural experiments or communication skills to try between sessions. She supports LGBT issues, coping with loss, career stress and compassion fatigue with the same straightforward approach.

Kim accepts international clients and runs sessions from the United Kingdom. To start she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to the therapist's availability. Sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How Kim's approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without being driven by them and then commit to small values-led actions. This can support anxiety, stress and life transitions by focusing on what matters in daily life. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours and uses practical experiments to test new ways of acting. CBT is often used for anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating difficulties. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship styles affect current connections and can be useful for intimacy and relationship concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and previous experience and then agree a plan together. That collaborative process means methods can be adjusted as needs change rather than set in stone at the start.

The original profile does not list specific session formats, so please confirm the available options when booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel and can reduce time spent on commuting. They also allow the therapist to assign practical tasks, brief behaviour experiments and communication exercises to try between meetings, helping to weave changes into everyday life.