About Kimberly
Kimberly Qualls, LMSW, LICSW, focuses on stress and anxiety along with depression, trauma, and relationship concerns. She offers straightforward, people-first support that aims to help clients manage everyday pressures and move toward clearer goals. Her tone is practical and warm, with an emphasis on building trust and using strengths already present in a person.
Kimberly works from a client-centered perspective, so sessions begin by listening to what matters most to the individual.
Background and approach
She uses goal-focused skills from cognitive behavioral therapy to tackle unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness practices are added when helpful to reduce overwhelm and improve moment-to-moment coping. Her background includes nine years of clinical work across settings that included running day treatment groups.
Those groups taught daily living skills and addressed behavioral challenges for children, and they also involved close collaboration with parents. That experience shaped her practical approach to problem solving and teaching skills that transfer to everyday life.
Kimberly has familiarity with issues that often co-occur, such as ADHD, addictions, grief, and panic attacks, and she applies motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques to support change. She pays attention to cultural and financial stressors that affect how people cope. Her practice aims to help people find workable steps forward.
Clients can expect clear discussion about goals, short-term strategies to reduce distress, and check-ins on progress. Kimberly encourages small, achievable changes and helps people adapt plans when life shifts occur.
How her approaches translate to online care
Kimberly blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral strategies to help people manage anxiety and stress. Client-centered therapy means she begins by listening and following what the person says matters most, then shapes sessions around those priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like panic and low mood.She also uses elements of emotionally focused and mindfulness-based work when relationships or intense emotions are central. Emotionally focused ideas help people name and shift patterns that cause conflict or distance, while mindfulness practices teach simple attention and breathing skills to lower arousal. Kimberly views choosing an approach as collaborative and flexible; she will help clients try methods and adjust them based on goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for longer therapy sessions and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue momentum when life changes occur.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Kimberly help with?
How would she describe her therapy style?
What is her professional background?
What credentials and region are listed?
Can sessions be held in other languages or internationally?
Which session formats are available?
How are costs handled?
What steps are needed to begin therapy?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Michigan, Alabama, Oregon, Washington, California
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.