About Kimberly
Kimberly "Kim" Frey is a licensed professional clinical counselor in California who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She also supports those dealing with depression, self-esteem concerns, motivation struggles, and family-related conflicts. Kim speaks plainly and treats people with respect and compassion.
She aims to make the first steps into therapy feel manageable and encouraging. With 20 years of experience, Kim shapes conversations and plans around each person's needs. Sessions focus on practical ideas and small, doable steps rather than long lectures.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that keep problems stuck and works with clients to try new ways of coping. Her approach draws from client-centered therapy, which centers the person's experience in every session. She also uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and test thoughts that fuel anxiety or low mood.
Mindfulness techniques are offered to build calm and attention in daily life. Kim tailors techniques to fit each person's goals. That might mean practicing new habits between sessions or trying brief, solution-focused exercises when time is short.
She pays attention to how family history, adoption, caregiving roles, or health issues can affect current stress. People come to Kim for help with attention and focus concerns, complicated grief or abandonment issues, body image, chronic illness, and communication problems. Her style is straightforward and warm, with an emphasis on realistic steps that fit a person's life.
Approaches that fit an online format
Client-centered therapy starts with the person's own experience. In online sessions this means the therapist follows what matters most to the client and mirrors back what she hears to help clarify feelings and goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments; it works well for anxiety and low mood and can include homework between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, brings skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance and can be taught in short practice exercises during calls or messages.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Kim will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their needs and goals. That decision is revisited as progress is made so the plan can change if something isn’t working.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions help when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, skill practice, and check-ins between longer sessions. Together these options help fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on skills and progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- 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
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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