About Kimberly
Kimberly Pollard Johnson is a licensed clinician in California with eight years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, addiction-related concerns, anger, and life changes. Her work also includes executive coaching for professionals seeking clearer direction.
She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Kimberly keeps conversations practical and goal-oriented. She listens first, then helps people set realistic steps they can use between sessions.
Sessions are tailored to each person’s needs and adjusted as progress is made.
Background and approach
Her background combines clinical counseling and marriage and family therapy perspectives, which she uses to address both emotional patterns and everyday challenges. That mix helps when someone is juggling work pressures, relationship strain, or health concerns like chronic illness. She often helps people manage strong emotions such as anger, impulsivity, guilt, or shame.
Kimberly also supports work on issues like codependency, communication problems, and commitment worries. For those facing life disruptions, she focuses on coping strategies and steady decision-making. Kimberly works with people dealing with body image, abandonment, dissociation, divorce or separation, and the effects of trauma such as domestic violence.
She also offers support around medical challenges including cancer and chronic pain. Throughout, the emphasis is on clear, doable steps and regular review of goals. People who choose her practice can expect a collaborative, down-to-earth approach.
She helps clients break problems into manageable parts and build practical skills that fit daily life.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Kimberly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical steps and measurable progress. One common approach helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with more balanced thinking; that method is useful for anxiety and stress. Another approach emphasizes building skills for managing strong emotions and impulsive reactions, which can help with anger and addiction-related behaviors.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kimberly will discuss goals, preferences, and daily routines, then try strategies that match what each person needs. Plans are reviewed regularly and adjusted when a technique is not working as hoped.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers audio only. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when written reflection feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, especially for people balancing work, caregiving, or health concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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