Kim Zepler, BACP

Kim Zepler is a qualified and registered humanistic counsellor based in Dorset who works in a conversational, client-led way that places the client’s experience at the centre of the work. She holds the BACP credential (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and frames her role as a listener rather than an adviser - she does not give direct advice, offer personal opinions, or share details of her own life.

Kim supports people facing both everyday pressures and deeper life transitions, including stress and anxiety from work or study, relationship difficulties, and a wide range of experiences of loss. She recognises that loss can take many forms beyond bereavement - friendship breakdowns, family estrangement, moving home, changes in health, shifts in identity such as job loss or children leaving home - and these changes can leave people feeling uncertain about who they are and where they belong.

Her practice is trauma informed and she is experienced in working with sudden and traumatic events, including death by suicide, serious illness, life-altering accidents, and histories of physical, emotional, financial, or historical abuse. Kim’s humanistic approach draws on Person Centred principles alongside Gestalt and Transactional Analysis, and she may incorporate creative exercises or simple mindfulness when these seem helpful. Therapy with Kim can be short or long term, involves gentle self-enquiry and challenge where appropriate, and is offered with a warm, non-judgmental presence and a sense of humour.