About Kimberly
Kimberly Murrell is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She offers calm, direct support for difficult moments and encourages small steps forward. Kimberly aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable for people who are nervous about starting.
She works with individuals coping with trauma and abuse, eating concerns, depression, and life transitions. Sessions focus on creating an open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and goal-oriented while still honoring how hard change can feel. Kimberly draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide her work. That means she uses approaches that focus on skills you can practice between sessions, along with talking through painful memories when needed.
The emphasis is on tools for managing anxiety, improving self-esteem, and reducing distress. With three years of professional experience, Kimberly brings steady support and straightforward care. She pays attention to communication patterns, control issues, and how guilt or shame shows up in daily life.
She also addresses eating and food-related struggles and concerns related to fertility. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, aiming to help people notice small changes that add up. Sessions balance immediate coping strategies with work on longer-term goals.
Kimberly hopes to help clients find clearer routines and kinder self-talk.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Kimberly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and steady progress. One common approach emphasizes skill-building for anxiety and stress management, teaching breathing, grounding, and thought-challenging strategies to reduce daily distress. Another approach concentrates on processing trauma and painful memories in a paced way, helping people make sense of difficult events and lessen their impact on current life.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to choose or adapt methods based on individual goals, symptoms, and preferences. This joint process means techniques may shift over time as needs change and progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations when more connection helps. Phone sessions work when bandwidth or cameras are limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins, tracking mood, or working through exercises between sessions. These options make it easier to fit support into a day-to-day routine while still working toward meaningful change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Avoidant personality
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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