About Kimberly
Kimberly Bailey is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina with thirty years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, addiction, or major life changes. Her style is straightforward and warm, aiming to build a strong working relationship so clients can begin making small, practical changes.
She uses approaches that center the person and their goals. Sessions typically start with what matters most to the client and move toward skills that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Kimberly helps people set realistic goals, practice new ways of coping, and notice progress along the way. Her background includes long experience with mood concerns such as depression and bipolar disorder, trauma and post-traumatic stress, substance and process addictions, and issues around intimacy and relationships. She also supports people facing caregiving strain, aging-related concerns, cancer, and health-related stressors.
She works with people who identify as LGBT and with challenges such as isolation, guilt, and codependency. In session Kimberly blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), client-centered methods, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. This mix lets her focus on thoughts, actions, values, and skill practice in a way that fits each person.
Sessions can include short skill practice, goal setting, and reflective conversation. Kimberly offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to accommodate different needs. She works in English and does not take international clients.
Costs vary by location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It often includes small behavior changes and practical exercises to build a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Sessions often include skill practice and short take-home exercises.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kimberly will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest ways of working that fit those aims. Treatment can blend ACT, CBT, client-centered listening, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing as needed, and adjustments are made over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful when visual cues matter and longer sessions are planned. Phone sessions work well when less bandwidth is available or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are practical for brief check-ins, quick skill coaching, and ongoing encouragement between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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