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Kimberley Wheeler

Kimberley Wheeler, BACP

BACP counsellor - anxiety and life changes

United Kingdom

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Credentials
BACP
Registration
BACP, United Kingdom / 401353
Experience
4 years
Languages
English
Location
United Kingdom
  • Client-Centred Therapy
  • Grief and bereavement
  • ADHD and neurodiversity

About Kimberley

Kimberley Wheeler is a BACP counsellor in the United Kingdom with four years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and help for life changes. She also lists support for relationship and family concerns, parenting issues, ADHD, and intimacy-related problems.

Sessions are person-focused. Kimberley uses Humanistic and client-centred ways of working that prioritise the person's perspective. She listens for what matters most and helps people talk through feelings and choices in everyday language.

Her background includes work alongside cancer patients and their families at Macmillan, and time supporting people in a suicide bereavement group. Those roles informed how she responds to grief, chronic illness and caregiver stress in therapeutic conversations.

In sessions Kimberley aims to hear what a person already knows about their life and build on that. She may bring in other techniques when useful, working in an integrative way rather than a single method. Conversations tend to focus on practical coping, understanding emotions, and clearer communication with others.

People often come for help with attachment and abandonment worries, body image, chronic pain or illness, and navigating blended family or adoption and foster care situations. Kimberley also lists experience with autism and neurodiversity, kink and alternative sex culture, and caring for people facing ageing or cancer related stresses.

Sessions are conducted in English and are set up through an initial matching process. Prospective clients choose the online therapy options button, complete a short questionnaire, and then schedule a first appointment.

How Client-Centred Work Transfers Online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening closely to the person's experience and reflecting that back. This approach helps with anxiety, grief and self-esteem by putting the person's own perspective at the centre and allowing them to find what feels meaningful.

Humanistic ideas underlie this work too, concentrating on understanding emotions and personal values rather than directing the person. That style can be helpful for coping with life changes, relationship questions and long-standing concerns such as attachment or abandonment worries.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will explore goals, preferences and what feels helpful, then agree together which ways of working to try. That collaborative process may include drawing on other techniques when they seem useful.

Practical benefits of online sessions include fitting meetings into busy days and reducing travel time. If you need a shorter check-in or a session without video, discuss options when you book. The exact session formats offered should be confirmed before arranging appointments.

Areas of expertise

Also works with

LGBTRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesCareer difficultiesCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesAttachment issuesAutism and Asperger SyndromeBDSM, kink, and alternative sex cultureBlended family issuesBody imageCancerCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesDissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesFertility issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHIV / AIDSHospice and end-of-life counselingImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisMoney and financial issuesMulticultural concernsNarcissismPanic disorder and panic attacksPolyamory / non-monogamous relationshipsPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthPrejudice and discriminationSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSexual dysfunctionSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Client-Centered Therapy

Experience

4+ years

Listed in

United Kingdom

Languages

English

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Kimberley support?

She works with stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, depression, coping with life changes, relationship and family issues, parenting, ADHD and related concerns.

What is her therapeutic style?

She uses Humanistic and client-centred approaches, focusing on listening and helping people make sense of feelings in their own words.

How much experience does she have?

Kimberley has four years of experience working in counselling roles, including supporting people affected by cancer and bereavement.

What credential does she hold and where is she based?

She is registered with the BACP and works from the United Kingdom.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can international clients work with her?

She is not currently accepting international clients.

How are sessions arranged and what do they cost?

Fees vary with location; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.

How do I begin if I want to meet her?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule a first session.

Kimberley WheelerBACP

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