About Kimberly
Kimberly Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Alabama who helps people facing anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, and mood concerns. She writes simply and directly with a focus on practical next steps. Her style aims to help someone feel less stuck and more able to move forward in daily life.
Kimberly draws on sixteen years of experience across rehabilitation counseling, mental health, and substance use settings. That background includes work with people facing bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and co-occurring conditions.
Background and approach
She has also supported those coping with chronic pain, traumatic experiences, and complicated grief. Sessions emphasize clear coping strategies and real-world skills. Techniques come from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and client-centered approaches.
Dialectical behavior therapy and attachment-based ideas are also part of her toolkit for emotion regulation and relationship patterns. She aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person’s needs. That can mean building a plan for stress management, practicing tools for panic and anxiety, or working through addictive behaviors.
The emphasis is on practical steps that fit daily life and personal goals. Kimberly approaches care with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She describes her goal as helping people move forward toward hope and renewed purpose.
Her practice welcomes international clients and conducts sessions in English.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people accept difficult thoughts while committing to actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, panic, persistent worry, and struggles around life purpose. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, useful for panic attacks, mood disorders, and stress management. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and can help when communication and trust are challenges in close relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kimberly collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and daily life. She adapts techniques based on what helps most, whether that means doing short skill practices between sessions or focusing on values and coping plans.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face from a chosen location, phone works when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t wanted, chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging allows ongoing support between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy routines while using the approaches above in ways that suit each person.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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