Kim Rutherford

The 8Wise® Life Coaching Approach
Are you feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or struggling with stress, burnout, anxiety, or self-doubt? Do you find yourself navigating a midlife crisis, career uncertainty, or personal challenges and wondering how to move forward? You’re not alone, and I’m here to help.

I am a life coach, executive psychological coach, and creator of the 8Wise® approach, designed to help individuals regain clarity, confidence, and control in their lives. My coaching is holistic, practical, and rooted in proven psychological strategies, ensuring you receive the tools and support needed to achieve long-term success and fulfillment.

How My 8Wise® Life Coaching Approach Helps
The 8Wise® method is an evidence-based framework focused on eight interconnected dimensions of well-being. It provides a structured, yet flexible path to mental well-being, resilience, and a fulfilling life.

✔ Psychological Well-being – Develop a healthy mindset, manage stress, and break free from negative thought patterns.
✔ Emotional Well-being – Improve self-awareness, emotional regulation, and resilience to handle life’s challenges with confidence.
✔ Physical Well-being – Learn how to maintain energy, health, and balance for a more fulfilling life.
✔ Social Well-being – Strengthen relationships, build meaningful connections, and improve communication.
✔ Occupational Well-being – Find purpose and satisfaction in your career, aligning work with your values and passions.
✔ Financial Well-being – Reduce financial stress and build a positive, empowered relationship with money.
✔ Environmental Well-being – Create a lifestyle and surroundings that support your happiness and productivity.
✔ Spiritual Well-being – Discover your purpose, values, and beliefs to cultivate a sense of fulfillment and direction.

What You Can Expect from Coaching
Through my 8Wise® coaching approach, I help you:
✔ Gain a deeper understanding of who you are and what truly matters to you
✔ Identify your unique skills, strengths, and untapped potential
✔ Overcome self-doubt, limiting beliefs, and emotional blocks
✔ Develop stress management techniques to prevent burnout
✔ Improve confidence, self-esteem, and decision-making
✔ Find clarity, direction, and a renewed sense of purpose

Whether you’re a business leader, professional, or someone seeking greater life balance, my coaching is tailored to your unique journey. Sessions are delivered online via Zoom, providing flexible and convenient support from the comfort of your chosen safe space.

If you're ready to transform your life, regain control, and thrive, let’s take the first step together. Reach out today to start your journey!

 Specialties & Coaching Areas

✔ Bariatric & GLP-1 Coaching – Supporting individuals on their weight loss and well-being journey, helping them adapt to lifestyle changes, emotional eating, and long-term health management.

✔ Life Transition Coaching – Helping clients navigate major life changes, including midlife challenges, career shifts, and personal growth.

✔ Leadership Development Coaching – Empowering professionals and executives to enhance leadership skills, resilience, and work-life balance.

I offer online coaching sessions via Zoom or Teams.

Coaching Services (50-60 minutes per session):
✔ Life Coaching & Personal Development – From £150 per session (discounts for block bookings)
✔ Executive Psychological Coaching – From £250 per session (discounts for block bookings)

✔ Personal Development Coaching – From £150 per session (discounts for block bookings)

Flexible Scheduling: Fortnightly or monthly sessions, tailored to your needs.

Payment & Cancellations:
✔ Payment required at booking
✔ 48-hour cancellation policy (late cancellations are charged)
✔ Payments via Bank Transfer, PayPal, Stripe, or Company Invoice
✔ Gift vouchers available

Working Hours:
📅 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
⏰ First appointment: 8:30 AM
⏰ Last appointment: 5:30 PM

Sessions are by appointment only.

 Testimonials:

I would highly recommend working with Kim in any capacity possible. I undertook 8 Wise coaching sessions during the lockdown period and her guidance, support and advice was one of the main reasons I got through it unscathed! Kim's approach made me feel instantly comfortable and relaxed. Her 8 Wise approach really helped me explore all parts of my life, it helped me realise the work I needed on the different areas. I am well on my way after my sessions, motivated, focused and feeling closer to healing some old wounds I'd buried deep. Thank you Kim forever grateful!

Embarking on a new career in a new sector could be a daunting prospect. However, Kim’s support and 8 Wise guidance helped me to thrive in my new role and managing an extremely stressful transition tackling any obstacles head-on. Through Kim's 8 Wise coaching, I began to think more strategically, both about my own career and my life as a whole. I was able to map my personal development towards achieving career objectives and my life milestones. As a result, I felt (for the first time) that I had full ownership of my goals and my wellness and wellbeing. 

As a manager I was struggling a lot with work stress, the support I received from Kim through her 8 Wise model was entirely holistic, which was a breath of fresh air within my corporate setting. Although there was a focus on personal development, Kim was always open to coaching me through more personal aspects of my professional and personal life with the 8 Wise model. I felt wholly confident in discussing any issues with Kim, safe in the knowledge that I was firmly in control of the process and the path I chose to take. I would recommend Kim and her 8 Wise approach for any career, business or personal blockers you may experience. I believe that her support and the 8 Wise guidance played a pivotal role in enabling me to change my life and improve my health.

Kim has helped and supported me to become the confident person I am today. She was my mentor and coach for two years at a time when I was stressed and filled with anxiety due to the difficulty of transitioning from university student to corporate trainee manager. Using the 8 Wise approach I found I was able to resolve my issues in an effective way. It helped me to identify who I am as a person and the strengths I have developed through my own life which I have since been able to use to improve areas of my life. I would definitely recommend Kim and the 8 Wise programme as a way of managing and overcoming stressful situations in life. 

I contacted Kim for 8 Wise coaching regarding my mental health, career, personal life and how to move forward positively. I can highly recommend the 8 Wise programme; Kim truly understands where I was coming from and offered really good guidance and thought provoking questions. I have never questioned Kim's ability to empathise and fully understanding my career, aspirations or personal issues regarding family. Her experiences have helped her understand where the client is coming from. I gained a huge amount from my 8 Wise sessions and thoroughly enjoyed them as Kim is personable, with good uplifting humour and spirit - she just gets it!

The 8 Wise programme can be summed up in one world – Amazing! I left each session feeling so positive about my personal future but also as a business owner I left with a renewed self-confidence and self-belief in my own ideas and ability to manage and grow my business effectively. I feel there is structure and guidance in what Kim is providing with 8 Wise for all elements of life and I am ready to go! Thank you, Kim, for your help so far and I look forward to a long working relationship and support for the future.

The 8 Wise programmes did not give me the answers, but rather, it gave me the tools to figure out the answers for myself, something which has had a significant impact on my confidence and ability to make progress within my personal life and my career. Being one of a group of ten people on the 8 Wise programme, I was inspired by how the programme could adapt to each of us depending on our mental health issues, individual work-styles and personalities. Overall, 8 Wise and Kim’s mentoring has made a significant difference in my personal development and I would not be where I am today if it wasn’t for her – thanks Kim

Kim is a great counsellor, coach and mentor all in one, so it’s not surprising that the 8 Wise programme changes lives, it certainly did mine. It helped me at a difficult time in my life and I discovered that I was suffering with anxiety attacks alongside my depression and suicidal thoughts, which I hadn’t realised. Using the programme, I worked through various limiting beliefs and unhelpful behaviours of mine which have been transformed so that I now show up as my best self for myself, not just other people. Now I’m creating a life and business that I love, and it’s given me the stability I have longed for, all thanks to 8 Wise.

Wow, the knowledge and experience of Kim is second to none, I got so much out of one initial session that I jumped straight onto the 8 Wise programme and I never looked back. It’s a first class programme that helped me to end a very toxic relationship without the overwhelming guilt I had experienced in the past, and feel like my happy self again

8 Wise is a really great programme which provided me with a lot of new ways of thinking about my wellbeing and mental health. I love the 8 Wise model.
Kim, I was thinking about all of the support and guidance you gave me as I started to review my 8 Wise Transition plan for the second time this year. Thank you for the tools and learnings you have given me through sharing your 8 Wise approach, it really did change my life.

Just had an amazing 8 Wise session with my wonderful therapist Kim Rutherford of Dalton Wise. She listens, understands and provides you with the 8 Wise tools to help find the solutions and prevent things getting too much, so I can maintain a healthy mind. As someone who has experienced counselling many times in my life, I can say without doubt that 8 Wise is a strong tool that I wish more therapists would use as it has brought me back to myself. My 8 Wise sessions each month are the same as paying for my hair, my nails or gym membership. They make me feel great and keep me on track. With 8 Wise I have learnt not to let the little things become the big things, and it makes me feel back in control of my mental health.

Sitting and simply having a chat with Kim about the 8 Wise programme has given me clarity in not only what I want out of life but a better understanding of how to achieve it.   Balance is the key, and the unique 8 Wise model is a great way of really visualising all the important aspects of my life that affect my wellbeing. I genuinely look forward to every meeting.