About Kimberly
Kimberly Adams uses a compassionate, client-centered approach to help people manage difficult emotions and life transitions. She is a licensed clinician with 37 years of experience and brings a calm, steady presence to sessions. Kimberly focuses on practical skills and clear steps that people can try between meetings.
She draws on attachment work to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy methods are used to map thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, and to build new coping habits.
How Kimberly works
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills help when emotions feel overwhelming and people need concrete tools to regulate and respond differently. Kimberly has worked with a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, stress, self-esteem, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, bipolar disorder, and ADHD. She also addresses intimacy-related issues, career strain, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image concerns.
Her background includes practice in Oklahoma and Kansas across many settings over several decades. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth. She listens first, then helps set clear goals and small steps toward them.
People leave sessions with specific strategies they can try that week. Kimberly values cultural sensitivity and respects varied life experiences. She helps people build stronger relationships with themselves and others and supports changes that fit each person's daily life.
Kimberly lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Kimberly works with
The areas below are the ones Kimberly selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCPC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 37 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
How Kimberly’s approaches work online
Kimberly integrates attachment-based work to uncover how early relationship patterns influence current reactions and connection. That approach is useful for people who want to understand recurring trust or closeness issues and learn new ways to relate.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where people set the pace and focus of sessions. This helps when someone needs time to process feelings and make their own choices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety or depressive patterns.
Choosing the best approach is collaborative. Kimberly will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then tailor methods to fit the person's needs. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for a full session with visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows faster check-ins, and messaging supports short updates or ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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