About Kimara
Kimara Runcie is a licensed clinician with 12 years of experience. She holds MD, LCPC, and LMHC credentials and practices from Maryland. She emphasizes a straightforward, nonjudgmental way of working so people feel heard from the first session.
Her approach starts with listening. Kimara creates space for clients to say what matters most and then helps them set practical goals. She guides conversations about stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes in plain language so next steps feel doable.
How Kimara works
Kimara uses a mix of methods drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, and trauma-focused techniques. That means sessions can include exploring feelings, noticing thought patterns that get in the way, and building small skills to manage difficult moments. She also offers solution-focused strategies when clients want concrete plans and short-term tools.
She helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, career stress, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and more. Additional areas she addresses include adoption and foster care matters, attachment challenges, caregiving strain, and dissociation. The focus is on practical progress rather than technical labels.
Kimara aims for collaboration. She talks with each person about what matters and adjusts the work to fit their life and goals. People can expect calm, direct conversation and a focus on realistic steps forward.
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What Kimara works with
The areas below are the ones Kimara selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | MD, LCPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maryland |
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Online support options
How these approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's perspective. Sessions help people talk through feelings, set their own goals, and build confidence in decision making. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that lead to distress and teaches practical skills to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on helping a person process difficult memories and learn coping strategies for flashbacks, dissociation, and intense emotions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try different methods when needed, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide together which techniques to use and how quickly to move from short-term coping skills to deeper work.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls work well for longer conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is lower, and chat or text is useful for brief check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options let clients fit therapy into busy schedules and continue consistent work even when travel or time constraints make in-person visits difficult.
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