About Kimberly
Kimberly Downing helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. She also supports those dealing with trauma, low self-esteem, and struggles with motivation. Kimberly brings a calm, steady presence to conversations and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She keeps sessions straightforward and centered on the person's goals. Kimberly encourages honest talk about feelings and reactions. She avoids judgment and works to make the therapy space feel approachable and respectful.
Background and approach
With two decades of clinical experience, Kimberly draws on methods that fit each person. She uses client-centered work to follow a person's pace and priorities. She also offers cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to help people notice and manage stress in daily life. Dialectical Behavior Therapy ideas support emotional regulation and coping when feelings feel overwhelming. Existential conversation helps people weigh values and purpose when life feels uncertain.
Kimberly holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, LCPC. She practices in Maryland and works with English-speaking clients. Sessions are designed to be practical, with tools people can apply between meetings to make small, steady changes.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client’s pace, validates their experience, and helps set goals based on the client's priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, involves identifying thought patterns that increase anxiety or low mood and testing new ways of thinking. In remote sessions CBT can include practical homework, brief exercises during video calls, and tracking thoughts between meetings.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving day-to-day coping. Online work can teach breathing and grounding techniques, emotion regulation skills, and simple behavior plans to use when stress spikes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust plans as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, 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. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short check-ins, quick coping guidance, or when typing feels more comfortable. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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