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I am a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor based in Raleigh, North Carolina. I have over 20 years of experience working in a variety of settings with adolescents, adults, families and couples with difficult challenges in life. Some of these challenges include: work/school related stress; relationship problems; coping with crisis; self-esteem issues; emotional disorders; anxiety; depression; and PTSD/trauma. My work is centers on providing a non-judgmental, supportive, compassionate and professional space for you to gain insight into your life.
In our first session together, we'll start with a brief introduction, then dive into the specific challenges you're facing. This will help me create a tailored plan for us to work through in follow-up sessions. Also, feel free to ask questions and share what has worked in the past and what hasn't been so helpful.
Strong communication is one of my greatest strengths as a therapist. I bring a calm, approachable, and personable presence to sessions and strive to create a safe, empathic, and judgment-free space. My goal is for you to feel comfortable sharing openly—especially when discussing sensitive or difficult topics. I listen attentively and with compassion, honoring your experiences and perspective.
I work best with clients who are motivated to grow and open to exploring their experiences in a safe, supportive space. My goal is to help you feel comfortable enough to share your challenges openly so we can work together to identify solutions that align with your needs and goals.
Other specialties
I identify as
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
I use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients experiencing grief by supporting them in accepting painful emotions, reducing avoidance, and reconnecting with their core values. ACT allows clients to honor their loss while also rebuilding a meaningful life. Through mindfulness, defusion strategies, and values-based action, clients learn to hold grief gently while moving forward a their own pace.
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
CBT is a structured and interactive therapy approach I use with most clients. CBT is a collaborative approach that allows clients to set their own agenda and prioritize what's most important to discuss during therapy. We often summarize and agree on homework for accountability purposes.
Exposure Response Prevention (ERP)
I have advanced training in ERP, the gold standard treatment for OCD. Over the years, I have used ERP with adolescents, young adults, and adults struggling with a wide range of OCD presentations, including contamination fears, checking behaviors, and intrusive distressing thoughts. Client's will learn to face feared situations in small manageable steps while resisting compulsions, building resilience, confidence, and freedom from OCD's grip.
Cognitive Processing (CPT)
I use Cognitive Processing Therapy as a structured, evidence-based approach to help client process traumatic experiences and identify how trauma has impacted the way they think about themselves, others, and world. My approach focuses on helping clients recognize and challenge 'stuck points' such as guilt, shame, self-blame, mistrust, or hypervigilance that often develop after trauma. In my work with veterans and trauma survivors, I've found CPT to be especially effective for addressing PTSD symptoms related to combat trauma, moral injury, childhood trauma, and chronic adverse experiences.
3 ratings with written reviews
May 20, 2026
Kimberly is fantastic. I would have selected all of the positive traits in the survey but it limited me to only two choices. :)
March 24, 2026
Kimberla, was great from the beginning. She has a great personality and a sense of humor, which is great for me. She’s easy to talk to. She seems very interested in my health and my mental state. I think I talk so much I used up the car was ended time ended. She’s so nice when I talk to her all day..
December 21, 2025
She allows me to talk my thoughts and feelings out. I don't feel like she has a script or plan laid out that I have to track.