About Kimberley
Dr. Kimberley Dockery offers direct, practical support for people coping with stress and anxiety. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Oregon with ten years of clinical experience.
Her approach is straightforward and focused on helping people regain everyday balance and calm. She helps people sort through grief, depression, relationship strain, and life changes. She also works with those managing chronic illness, caregiver stress, postpartum mood concerns, and issues related to identity and multicultural life.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear goals and small steps that fit each person’s life. In the room she listens for what matters most and helps clients connect those concerns to actions they can try between sessions. Her methods draw from cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance-based work, emotional processing, and mindfulness skills.
Those tools are used to steady mood, ease worry, and improve communication skills. Her background includes medical family therapy experience where she worked with people facing medical and caregiving challenges. That experience informs a practical focus on coping strategies, pacing, and problem-solving when health or life circumstances are changing.
Dr. Dockery aims to create a respectful, collaborative space so people can set realistic goals and practice new ways of coping. She emphasizes values-based goals and concrete steps that support lasting change.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small, values-guided actions even when difficult thoughts or feelings show up. It can help when anxiety or life changes make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It is useful for sleep problems, worry, and mood shifts. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the client’s perspective, using listening and reflection to build insight and self-compassion.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and recommend methods that fit each person’s needs. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is suited to longer therapy sessions and visual interaction, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging is helpful for brief reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum when schedules or locations change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English
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