About Kimberly
Kimberly Richards is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 11 years of experience in outpatient mental health. She holds LCSW and LMSW credentials and practices in Michigan. Kimberly focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and other concerns that affect daily life.
Her background includes extensive work with trauma and abuse, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, and addictions. She also supports people facing grief, parenting stress, caregiver strain, and complicated family or relationship problems.
Background and approach
ADHD, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue are additional areas she addresses. Kimberly brings a warm, interactive style to sessions. She centers conversations on each person’s goals and strengths.
She aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while helping them build practical skills for coping. Her practice uses common therapeutic approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, solution-focused methods, and trauma-focused interventions. Sessions typically include talk, problem-solving, and hands-on strategies designed to reduce symptoms and improve daily routines.
People who choose Kimberly can expect a collaborative process where their values and faith may inform the work if they wish. She explains tools in simple terms and focuses on steps clients can try between sessions. The aim is steady progress toward clearer thinking, better coping, and more satisfying day-to-day experience.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and strengths and involves open listening and guided conversation to help people find their own solutions. It works well for stress, relationship concerns, and building confidence.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes because it gives clear tools to try between sessions.
Trauma-focused therapy attends to the effects of past trauma and uses targeted strategies to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. This approach is used for trauma and abuse, PTSD symptoms, and related emotional difficulties.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and recommend methods to try first. That plan can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone calls use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging lets someone reflect and reply on their own time. These options make it easier to maintain regular sessions and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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