Kim Forbes, BACP
5 years in practice
Kim Forbes is a counsellor and psychotherapist who takes a person-centred approach.
License and registration
- BACP
- 384960 · expires September 2026
- Years in practice
- 5
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the registration with the body that granted it.
About Kim
Kim Forbes is a counsellor and psychotherapist who takes a person-centred approach. She holds BACP accreditation and has five years' practice in the United Kingdom. Kim aims to help people move past fear and anxiety so they can live more fully and authentically.
She works with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, grief and relationship and intimacy issues. She also supports people facing addictions, trauma and abuse, and challenges such as sleep or eating problems and career strain.
Background and approach
LGBT concerns and compassion fatigue are also within her scope. Kim blends approaches to suit each person. She draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based ideas, client-centred listening and elements of cognitive behavioural work.
Sessions focus on understanding emotions, spotting unhelpful patterns and building small practical steps forward. Her style is warm, empathic and non-judgemental. She aims to offer respect and compassion while helping people identify what matters to them and what changes they want to make.
Conversations are straightforward and paced to the individual. People contact Kim about both single issues and overlapping problems such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, communication problems, separation or codependency. She also supports those affected by cancer, caregiving stress, disaster-related coping, dissociation and personality-related struggles.
Work may include exploring feelings, strengthening relationships and planning manageable goals.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Kim lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Self esteem
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Kim names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Using emotional and acceptance-based approaches online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name their emotions, then use those feelings to change patterns in close relationships and personal behaviour. It can be useful for relationship strain, intimacy concerns and grief work.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed actions even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear. It can help with anxiety, stress and getting unstuck from avoidance. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections, and it supports work on abandonment fears, communication problems and building safer relating.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss the client's needs, goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try. Plans are reviewed as therapy progresses so the work stays relevant and practical.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation, phone sessions suit times with limited bandwidth, and live chat or text messaging can work for short check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family or travel and to choose the format that best supports ongoing progress.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does this counsellor address?
Kim works with stress, anxiety and depression and also with relationship and intimacy issues, grief and trauma. She supports people with addictions, eating and sleeping problems, career strain and compassion fatigue.
How would you describe the therapeutic style?
Her style is warm, empathic and non-judgemental with person-centred listening. Sessions combine emotional work and practical steps that fit each person's goals.
What experience does the counsellor have?
She has five years of clinical experience supporting adults with a wide range of issues including relationship difficulties, trauma, grief and mood concerns.
What qualifications and location are listed?
Kim holds BACP accreditation and practices in the United Kingdom.
Which languages and international arrangements are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
Work is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging depending on what suits the client.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
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