About Kimball
Dr. Kimball Pier helps people facing relationship strain, grief, trauma, parenting challenges, and addiction. She also supports those dealing with anxiety, depression, major life changes, and stress.
Dr. Pier is a California licensed marriage and family therapist with three decades of clinical practice. She works in plain, direct ways that focus on what matters now.
Her style is calm and practical. Sessions often begin by listing immediate problems and priorities.
How Kimball works
She uses conversations, reflective listening, and hands-on techniques to help people name feelings and try new ways of responding. Many clients come for help after a loss, a breakup, or a big life transition. Dr.
Pier draws on methods that look at attachment patterns, the body, dreams and symbols, and mindful attention. She pairs gentle inquiry with real-world strategies for communication, routines, and coping. When trauma or abuse is part of the story she brings approaches designed to reduce overwhelm and rebuild a sense of safety in relationships.
She has long experience helping with divorce planning, blended family issues, co-parenting, and family conflict. She also has worked with substance use concerns, eating issues, chronic illness, and end-of-life stress. Her practice attends to both emotion and behavior so people can move forward.
People who meet with Dr. Pier can expect a respectful, compassionate space to tell their story. She invites curiosity and small experiments between sessions so change can feel achievable.
Her work is steady, patient, and geared toward practical next steps.
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What Kimball works with
The areas below are the ones Kimball selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Attachment, Jungian, and Somatic Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns. Online work can clarify how people connect and react in relationships and teach new ways to relate. Jungian Therapy pays attention to symbols, dreams, and life stories to help people find meaning after loss or big changes. It can be useful for grief, career shifts, and identity questions. Somatic Therapy focuses on the body’s role in emotional life and uses simple body-based practices to reduce tension and dysregulation.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. This means trying an approach, checking how it feels, and adjusting the plan together as progress is made.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people work face to face from different locations. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be simpler to schedule. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, processing between sessions, or when someone prefers written conversation. These options support continuity of care and flexibility while people work on relationships, trauma recovery, grief, and life transitions.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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