About Kim
Kim Erin OConnor is an LPC practicing in New Jersey who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She offers straightforward, practical support for day-to-day struggles and big life transitions. Her approach centers on brief, useful strategies that people can try between sessions.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and change routines that keep problems alive. Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to help people notice reactions and regain control of their attention.
Background and approach
Motivational interviewing is used when someone feels stuck and needs help finding reasons to change. Kim draws on experience working in hospital behavioral health and outpatient settings. That background shaped how she approaches problems like addictions, panic, and depression.
She also has experience with caregiver stress, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and cancer-related concerns. Sessions emphasize clear goals and small steps. Solution-focused ideas help set short-term targets, while psychodynamic thinking can illuminate longer patterns that repeat across relationships.
People leave with concrete homework and a plan to practice between appointments. She works with issues including grief, low self-esteem, social anxiety, seasonal mood changes, anger, and compassion fatigue. Kim offers phone, video, chat, and text-based sessions so people can pick what fits their life.
Her counseling blends practical problem solving with attention to personal meaning.
Therapeutic approaches that fit online care
Kim uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behavior patterns. CBT is often practical and task-oriented, which translates well to online work when someone needs tools for anxiety, panic, or low mood.Mindfulness therapy is another approach Kim uses to teach simple attention practices and breathing exercises. These techniques help people notice stress and reduce reactivity, and they can be practiced during phone or video sessions and reinforced with short exercises sent by message.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kim will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, and then recommend a mix of approaches. The decision is collaborative and can shift as needs change.
Online therapy with video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client see one another for richer conversation. Phone sessions are useful for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, coaching-style guidance, and staying connected between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy schedule and to practice skills in real time.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- LGBT
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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