About Kim
Kim Connolly is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 35 years of experience in mental health. She brings a calm, straightforward style and a long history of helping people manage anxiety, stress, grief, and relationship challenges. Kim worked many years in nonprofit settings and has supported people through trauma, loss, and long-term personal growth.
She keeps sessions warm and interactive while staying direct when needed. Kim listens for each person's pace and priorities and adapts her approach to what feels right for them.
Background and approach
Humor and compassion are part of how she helps people cope with hard feelings. Her background includes a Master’s in Counseling from Sonoma State University and a California LMFT license. Early work in group homes and humane societies shaped her practical, down-to-earth approach to care.
That experience also informed her long history supporting people who survived physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Kim uses a mix of methods to meet different needs, drawing on client-centered ideas, cognitive and behavioral tools, mindfulness practices, and skills from dialectical behavioral work. She explains techniques plainly and practices them collaboratively with each person.
Clients often come for help with parenting stress, eating and body concerns, chronic pain or illness, attachment questions, and coping with life transitions. Kim also offers support for compassion fatigue and the effects of disaster and social upheaval. She offers sessions in English from California by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
To begin, a simple matching questionnaire connects people to scheduling options.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Options
Kim often blends cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior ideas to help people manage anxiety, overwhelming emotions, and unhelpful thinking patterns. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing thoughts and changing patterns that keep anxiety and depression active, often using simple exercises and homework. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication when feelings feel intense.She also brings client-centered therapy into sessions, which means conversations start with the person’s goals and priorities. Finding the right mix of methods is a team effort - the therapist and client decide together what feels most useful, and that plan can change as needs shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility and easier access to ongoing care. Video calls let people use facial cues and body language, phone sessions work well when video isn’t needed or bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit sessions around work, school, caregiving, or medical needs while maintaining a steady course of care.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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