About Kimberly
Kimberly Harshaw is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina with seven years of experience. She focuses on helping adults who struggle with anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and the stress of life changes. Her work emphasizes practical steps and steady support so people can regain a sense of control.
Kimberly uses straightforward, skills-based methods to address worry, low mood, and chronic stress. She also supports people coping with grief, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, anger, and issues around intimacy or self-esteem.
Background and approach
She brings direct, compassionate attention to both emotional and physical challenges, including chronic pain. In sessions she listens first and then offers tools that fit each person’s life. She often blends approaches like cognitive behavior techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, and schema-informed strategies to reduce distress and build healthier patterns.
Clients work on practical skills, new ways of thinking, and clearer goals. Kimberly aims to create a respectful, hopeful space. She meets people where they are and moves at a pace that feels manageable.
Her style is warm and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on teaching skills people can use between sessions. For people juggling work, parenting, or physical health issues, she focuses on realistic steps that fit daily life. Conversations are plain and direct, focused on what will help right now and over time.
How evidence-based methods translate to online care
Kimberly draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. That approach focuses on small, practical experiments and homework tasks that reduce anxiety and improve mood.She also uses principles from dialectical behavior approaches to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. These strategies help people manage intense feelings and improve relationships over time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kimberly will listen to your goals and try methods that match your needs, adjusting as you progress. Together you decide which tools feel most useful and realistic.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when discussion or exercises benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quieter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging offer short, ongoing support between sessions and can be helpful for quick skill reminders or check-ins.
These options give flexibility for people juggling work, family, or chronic health concerns, while keeping focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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