Kim Wilksch, AASW

Kim Wilksch is an Accredited Social Worker with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) who combines professional training with lived experience to support people through major life challenges. She is also a mother of adult children and draws on both personal and learned experience to inform her practice and empathise with others.

Kim offers support to people affected by domestic and family violence, helping survivors navigate the complex emotional, practical and relational impacts of those experiences. She works with people facing grief and loss, anxiety, depression and the many stresses that come with life changes, and brings particular understanding to chronic pain because it is part of her daily life.

Kim is able to work with clients who wish to explore faith alongside mental health; she holds theological qualifications and can provide faith-informed support for Christians. She is equally comfortable offering non-religious approaches and adapts her style to meet each person�s needs, whether those needs are more conservative or more liberal in orientation.

Communication, self-care and building resilience are practical areas of focus in her work, and she supports post-traumatic growth, caregiver stress, family difficulties, relationship challenges and issues around attachment, abandonment and ageing. Her therapeutic practice draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), trauma-focused ACT, Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Solutions-Focused and Client-Centred Therapy, Narrative Therapy and mindfulness-informed techniques. Kim integrates strengths-based, anti-oppressive and person-centred principles and includes psychoeducation as part of her work. She looks forward to working with you.

Therapeutic approaches for online counselling

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them, and supports action based on personal values. It is often used for anxiety, depression, chronic pain and the distress that follows major life changes.

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of connection and trust in relationships, exploring how early and current attachment experiences affect feelings of safety, closeness and communication. It can be helpful for relationship difficulties, abandonment concerns and family conflict.

Client-Centred Therapy offers a respectful, non-judgemental space where the person�s goals and experiences guide the work, emphasising empathy and collaboration to build self-understanding and resilience.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Kim will work collaboratively with each person to identify which methods best match their needs, goals and preferences, and will adapt techniques as therapy progresses.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging offers practical flexibility, making it easier to access appropriately qualified or registered professionals from home or other convenient locations. These options allow therapists to tailor session formats to what suits a person�s life, schedule and communication style, supporting ongoing progress even when attending in person is difficult.