About Kimberly
Kimberly Harris is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with eight years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She supports individuals dealing with addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. Her approach is respectful and compassionate, and she adapts conversations to each person's needs.
In sessions she focuses on practical steps clients can use right away. She listens first, then works with clients to build short-term goals and manageable strategies.
Background and approach
That might mean practicing new coping skills, adjusting daily routines, or learning ways to handle strong emotions. Kimberly draws on talk-based methods and structured techniques. She uses client-centered work to follow what matters most to each person.
She also brings in cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and DBT skills for emotion regulation when needed. Her practice includes addressing relationship and intimacy questions, parenting stress, career concerns, and issues tied to identity such as LGBT matters. She also helps with eating and sleeping problems, ADHD-related struggles, compassion fatigue, and coping after disasters or major life changes.
Clients can expect straightforward communication and a plan tailored to their situation. Kimberly emphasizes small, steady steps toward better daily functioning. The work aims to build skills people can use long after sessions end.
How Kimberly’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy starts from the person’s needs and values. The therapist listens closely and follows what the client says is most important. This approach helps people feel heard and involved in planning their next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing small behaviors. It is practical work for anxiety, depression, and stress, with clear exercises to practice between sessions.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. Kimberly will collaborate with each client to choose approaches that match their goals and comfort level. Together they set short-term goals and decide which skills to practice first.
Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone wants a simpler check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, skill coaching, or when a person prefers writing to talking.
These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family, or other commitments. They also allow ongoing contact and skill practice between longer sessions, helping progress stay steady over time.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Kimberly commonly address?
What is her general therapy style?
How much professional experience does she have?
What credentials and location are listed?
Which languages and international options are available?
What session formats does she use?
How is cost handled for sessions?
What are the first steps to begin working together?
What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.