Kim Zepler, BACP
Kim Zepler is a BACP-registered humanistic counsellor based in the United Kingdom.
About Kim
Kim Zepler is a BACP-registered humanistic counsellor based in the United Kingdom. She uses a conversational, client-led style that focuses on a person’s experience and needs. Sessions aim to be warm and non-judgemental so people can talk through their worries and make sense of difficult events.
She helps people facing many challenges, from everyday stress and anxiety to grief and major life changes. Trauma and abuse are included among her practice areas, and she is comfortable working with sudden or distressing events and their effects.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, addiction, mood difficulties and neurodiversity-related issues. Her background is humanistic counselling, which means she prioritises the person in front of her rather than giving advice or sharing personal stories. Kim integrates person-centred ideas with Gestalt and transactional analysis in sessions.
Creative exercises and mindfulness may be used when they suit the person’s needs. Counselling can involve gentle challenge and self-enquiry alongside space for acceptance. Kim describes the work as collaborative and paced according to each person’s goals.
Therapy can be short term or longer term depending on what is most helpful. She brings three years of practice and a straightforward, down-to-earth manner to her work. People who prefer clear, compassionate conversation and practical ways to understand feelings may find her approach helpful.
Details from the counsellor's public professional profile · registration number listed
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| Body | Registration number | Expires |
|---|---|---|
| BACP | 389528 | May 2026 |
Registration details are as listed on the counsellor's public profile. You can check any number with the registering body.
Sessions and payment
Sessions are held online through our partner platform, by video, phone or messaging depending on the counsellor.
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Focus areas and approaches
Everything Kim lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Ways of working Kim names
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How trauma‑informed and person‑centred approaches work online
Trauma-Focused Therapy aims to help people process distressing events and reduce their ongoing impact. In practice this means gently approaching difficult memories, learning ways to manage strong reactions, and building skills to cope with triggers.Client-Centred Therapy emphasises an empathic, non-judgemental relationship. The therapist listens closely, follows the client's lead, and supports people to find their own solutions and sense of identity without giving advice.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences and what feels safe, and then adapt methods together. This collaborative process helps decide whether trauma-focused techniques, person-centred listening, or a blend will be most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits short check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring responsibilities or travel and allow people to maintain regular contact from different locations.
Frequently asked
What kinds of concerns does Kim support?
Kim works with a broad range of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related concerns, addictions, sleep and eating problems, parenting strain, ADHD and bipolar among others.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is conversational and person centred. Sessions focus on the person's experience, and the work is guided by the client's needs rather than the counsellor giving advice.
What experience does she have?
She has three years of counselling practice and describes her practice as trauma informed, working with sudden events and historical abuse when they arise.
What credentials and location are shown?
She holds BACP registration and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Kim offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging as ways to work together.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions are provided via a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by clicking the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.