Kim Smith, BACP

Kim Smith is a BACP counsellor who works with adults and young people aged 16 and over. She trained in Integrative-Relational Counselling and brings four years of practice experience to sessions. Kim aims to create a calm, warm space where people can talk about what is troubling them and start to make sense of difficult feelings.

Her work often addresses stress, anxiety and low mood, and she supports people facing grief and loss. She also helps with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career questions and the practical impact of long-term health issues. Kim lists a range of other areas she works with, including addiction, ADHD, body image and eating-related worries.

Kim uses an integrative style, which means she draws on different evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person. Sessions are shaped around what a person needs in the moment, rather than following a strict formula. She places clear emphasis on the relationship in therapy as a helpful tool for change.

In practice she listens for strengths and builds from them, offering gentle challenges and helpful questions to shift unhelpful patterns. Her training includes work on grief and bereavement, so she is familiar with supporting people through loss and major life transitions. Kim works in the United Kingdom and holds the BACP credential noted above.

If you are unsure whether therapy might help, she encourages a brief initial contact to talk through your concerns and find out how she might fit your needs.

How Kim uses evidence-based approaches online

Kim works from an integrative-relational perspective, blending different evidence-based therapeutic techniques to suit each person. For example, she may use structured approaches to help manage anxiety by identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new ways of responding. These methods help people reduce worry and gain practical coping steps.

She also draws on bereavement-focused work to support people facing loss. This involves making space to talk about the impact of the loss, exploring how grieving is affecting daily life, and finding ways to carry on with meaning. Such work can help with sleep, appetite and the heavy emotions that follow loss.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Kim will work with you to decide which techniques suit your goals, needs and preferences. Over the first few sessions you can try different ways of working and agree what feels most helpful.

If you are interested in online sessions, please confirm the current session options before booking as formats are not specified in the profile. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, cut travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Therapists and registered or accredited professionals often use online ways to maintain continuity of care and keep therapy accessible.