About Kimberly
Kimberly Marks is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who uses evidence-based techniques to help people manage anxiety and everyday stresses. She keeps sessions practical and focused on the problems people bring in. Kimberly aims to make therapy feel like a clear, step-by-step conversation rather than a lecture.
She helps people sort through family patterns, relationship conflicts, and parenting strain. She also supports those facing grief, life transitions, workplace pressure, and questions about purpose.
Background and approach
Sessions cover concrete skills for coping, clearer communication, and ways to reduce worry and overwhelm. Kimberly draws on her background as a long-time high school educator and on graduate training in counseling. She holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara and a Master of Education from Stanford.
Her clinical credential is LMFT, which stands for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. In a session she listens for patterns that repeat across relationships and daily life. Together with the person she identifies small, manageable steps to change how stress and anxiety show up.
She also uses approaches to process grief and strong memories when they get in the way of daily functioning. Her style is warm and straightforward. Kimberly works with individuals, adolescents, young professionals, couples, parents, and blended families.
She sees people in California and offers therapy in English.
How therapeutic techniques work online
Kimberly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on reducing anxiety and improving daily functioning. One approach emphasizes practical coping skills and behavioral strategies to lower worry and manage stressful situations; this helps with social anxiety, workplace stress, and everyday overwhelm. Another approach centers on processing grief and distressing memories through guided therapeutic work to reduce their hold on daily life and to help people move forward.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kimberly will talk with the person about their goals, symptoms, history, and preferences, and together they will try methods that match those needs. She checks in regularly and adjusts techniques based on what helps most in real life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face conversation when deeper interaction is helpful. Phone sessions are a good fit when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, and easier scheduling during a workday or while parenting.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
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- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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