Kimberley Long, BACP

Kimberley Long is a counsellor and a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). She has 13 years of professional experience working across the UK health and social care sectors. Kimberley aims to make the first step easier for people who are worried or unsure about starting therapy.

She has worked in the NHS, in private practice, and in community projects. That background means she is familiar with a range of mental health and social care needs. Kimberley commonly helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction and grief.

Her work is grounded in a person-centred approach. That means sessions focus on each person's priorities and pace. She also uses practical techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and elements of dialectical behaviour therapy to manage difficult thoughts and behaviours.

Sessions are conversational and down-to-earth. Kimberley listens without judgement and encourages people to try small changes between meetings. She talks through coping skills, emotion regulation and ways to improve everyday routines.

She also supports people dealing with relationship strain, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, career stress and life changes such as separation or bereavement. Additional areas of focus include attachment issues, caregiver stress, addiction concerns and health-related challenges such as cancer.

Kimberley offers work suited to different needs, mixing compassionate listening with clear, practical steps. She encourages people to set small goals and reviews progress together so the plan stays relevant and realistic.

How Kimberley’s approaches translate to online therapy

Client-centred work focuses on the person’s priorities and builds sessions around what they want to address. In practice that means the counsellor listens closely, reflects what is said and helps people set goals that matter to them.

Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, involves looking at unhelpful thoughts and habits and finding practical ways to change them. It is useful for anxiety, low mood and managing everyday stress by teaching coping strategies and small experiments to try between sessions.

Dialectical behaviour therapy, or DBT, adds tools for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. This can help when someone struggles with anger, impulsive behaviours or relationship difficulties by offering skills for emotional regulation and distress tolerance.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kimberley will collaborate with each person to decide which methods suit their goals, needs and preferences, and she will adapt techniques as the relationship develops.

Online sessions can use video calls, phone conversations, live chat or text messaging to fit different rhythms of life. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and text options suit brief check-ins or those who prefer writing. This flexibility helps people fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping continuity of care.