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Kim Zepler, BACP
- Credentials
- BACP
- Experience
- 3 years
- Practising in
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Sessions
- Online only
- Client ages
- Adults, 18 and over
Works with Relationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseGriefCoping with life changes
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Kim Zepler helps people facing relationship difficulties, loss, trauma and everyday stress. She is a humanistic counsellor who focuses on what you are going through and what you need. Kim works in a conversational way and keeps sessions centred on each person’s experience.
Her approach is practical and down to earth. Sessions are client-led and Kim listens without judging or offering personal opinions. She does not give direct advice; instead she supports people as they talk through painful events and confusing feelings.
Background and approach
Kim is comfortable supporting people after sudden or traumatic events, including serious accidents, suicide and illness. She has experience with different kinds of abuse and with the long-term effects those experiences can have. She also helps with issues such as anxiety, depression, bipolar difficulties, addiction, and compassion fatigue.
She offers help with life changes and losses that are not only bereavement - for example relationship breakups, moving home, changing roles, or losing a sense of identity. Kim can also work with concerns around parenting, sleep and eating, intimacy, self-esteem, career stress, and communication problems. Kim trained within the humanistic tradition and holds BACP registration, which is listed as her credential.
She brings three years of counselling experience to her practice in the United Kingdom. Sessions are available in English and are offered through several online formats. Her style is warm and straightforward with a touch of humour when it fits.
People who prefer a listening, client-centred space where they can be challenged gently may find her approach helpful.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy puts your experience at the centre of each session. The counsellor follows your lead, reflecting what you say and helping you find your own answers. This approach can be useful for issues like low self-esteem, life transitions and relationship concerns.Trauma-Focused Therapy looks directly at the impact of traumatic events and the feelings that follow. It helps people make sense of distressing memories and reduce their hold on daily life. This method can be suited to those dealing with sudden loss, abuse or long-term trauma reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The counsellor will talk with you about what feels helpful and adapt methods to your needs, goals and preferences. Decisions about pacing and techniques are made together so the process feels collaborative.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering practical flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, family and everyday life.
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counselling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
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