About Kimberly
Kimberly Harris helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, grief, and depression. She also supports people facing relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career stress, ADHD challenges, and issues around self-esteem. She presents in a calm, respectful way and focuses on practical steps rather than jargon.
Kimberly holds an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential - LCPC - and brings eight years of experience to her work.
How Kimberly works
She adapts sessions to each person, tailoring conversation and plans to what feels useful in the moment. Her approach treats people as partners in the process rather than passive recipients. In sessions she uses tools from Client-Centered Therapy to listen and reflect what matters most.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help identify and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Mindfulness techniques are used to build moment-to-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. She also uses strategies from Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy informs how she looks at relationship patterns and attachment concerns. These methods are chosen to match the person’s goals and situation. Kimberly aims to make therapy understandable and useful.
She focuses on clear goals, skill-building, and small steps people can try between sessions. People who want practical support and a thoughtful listener often find this style helpful.
Kimberly lists 6 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters most to the person, creating a space where goals and priorities guide the work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replaces them with more adaptive patterns; it often works well for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides practical skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and building better coping strategies for crises.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Kimberly will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. That may mean trying a skill-based plan for several sessions, then shifting toward emotion-focused work as needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, and each has practical benefits. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief updates into a busy day or to keep therapy going between longer appointments. These options support flexibility so therapy can fit regular life and changing schedules.
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A practical next step
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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