About Kimberly
Kimberly Tawney is a clinician based in Maryland who focuses on anxiety, mood concerns, and relationship stress. She holds an MD and is a Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical, and brings three years of professional therapy experience to her practice. She helps people manage depression, grief, and feelings of isolation.
Sessions often include practical tools for handling stress and stronger day-to-day coping skills. Kimberly also addresses issues tied to mood disorders, addictions, anger, and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She listens first, then works with each person to set clear, realistic goals. Clients can expect straightforward suggestions and step-by-step strategies they can use between sessions.
Kimberly draws on approaches that include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Those methods are used together to match a person’s needs rather than following a single fixed plan. Many people seek her help for communication problems, caregiving stress, body image concerns, guilt, loneliness, or questions about life purpose.
She also supports those facing trauma, personality and mood disorders, social anxiety, and self-harm thoughts. Conversations focus on understanding what matters to the person and finding doable changes. Therapy is offered through video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Kimberly guides people toward small, measurable steps that make daily life feel more manageable.
How Kimberly Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s concerns and values. The therapist listens without judgment and helps people name what matters most to them and set goals that fit their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical exercises and behavior changes that reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kimberly will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day routines, and together they decide which methods to try first. That plan can change over time as needs evolve and progress is tracked collaboratively.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules. Video offers face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text allow short check-ins or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and accessible while focusing on practical tools and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Grief
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fatherhood issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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