Kim Rutherford

Feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or emotionally drained? You’re not alone and you don’t have to navigate it alone.

Whether you're facing stress, anxiety, low confidence, burnout, self-esteem challenges, career uncertainty, or struggling to manage the chaos and demands of modern life, such as managing a business or living as a neurodivergent (ADHD, Autism), support is here.

I’m Kim, I am a Neurodivergent Psychotherapist, Life Coach, Executive Coach, Author, and Founder of the 8Wise® Method. With over 20 years’ experience in personal development, mental health, and wellness, I support clients online (Zoom) and in person from my private practice in East Devon.

 
The 8Wise® Method
I created the 8Wise® Method to provide a structured, evidence-based pathway to better mental health, emotional wellbeing, and personal success.

This unique approach combines therapy, coaching, and mindset work across eight key areas of life to help you gain clarity, control, and direction.

What the 8Wise® Method Supports:
✔ Psychological & Emotional Health: Manage anxiety, depression, and emotional blocks
✔ Confidence & Self-Esteem: Rebuild trust in yourself and unlock your potential
✔ Career & Leadership: Navigate change, avoid burnout, and lead with balance
✔ Relationships: Strengthen communication, connection, and boundaries
✔ Lifestyle & Wellness: Create a healthier, more energised routine
✔ Motivation & Success: Set meaningful goals and take purposeful action
✔ Personal Development: Break patterns, grow with intention, and reconnect with your identity
✔ Happiness & Fulfilment: Redefine what a good life looks like—for you

 
Who I Work With
I work with adults from all walks of life but many of my clients are:

• Midlife professionals experiencing burnout, imposter syndrome, or career transitions
• Business owners and executives needing coaching that includes both mental health and strategy
• Individuals seeking more confidence, motivation, and a better relationship with themselves
• People navigating major life changes and wanting practical, compassionate support

What You Can Expect:
With the 8Wise® Method, you’ll gain:

1. Tools to reduce stress, manage energy, and prevent emotional fatigue
2. Support in building better relationships — both personally and professionally
3. A clearer path to greater happiness, purpose, and wellness
4. A renewed sense of confidence, balance, and fulfilment
    

Where I Work:
Sessions are available online via Zoom or in person in East Devon, near Axminster, Bridport, Chard, Exeter, Honiton, Lyme Regis, Seaton, and Sidmouth.

 
If you’re ready to improve your health, mindset, and motivation, let’s talk.
It’s time to take the first step toward a healthier happier mind and more fulfilling life.

 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.

Life and Therapeutic Coaching

• £120 per month for WhatsApp, text & email support
• £150 per 60 minute session for Online or In-person (fortnightly or monthly)
• £250 per month for 1 x monthly session plus WhatsApp, text & email support
• Hypnotherapy (In-Person only)

Business Strategy and Mentoring

• £200 per 60 minute session (fortnightly or monthly)
• £300 per month for 1 x monthly session plus WhatsApp, text & email support
• £500 for 1/2 day online or in-person
• £750 for a full day online or in-person

Counselling and Psychotherapy

• £60 per month for WhatsApp, text & email support
• £70 per 60 minute session for Online or In-person (weekly or fortnightly)
• £200 per month for 2 x fortnightly sessions plus WhatsApp, text & email support

Hypnotherapy (In-Person only)

• £60 per session (weekly or fortnightly)

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

Zoom link or address will be provided with booking confirmation. 

 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.