About Kim
Kim Class is a licensed professional counselor practicing in New Jersey. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, intimacy concerns, career questions, addiction struggles, and mood issues like depression and bipolar disorder. She also helps with parenting stress, compassion fatigue, and LGBT-related concerns.
With 28 years of experience, she brings a steady, practical approach. Sessions aim to be straightforward and respectful, giving people room to talk and reflect. Kim encourages honest conversation about feelings, patterns, and what gets in the way of change.
Background and approach
Her work draws on client-centered methods that keep the person's goals in view. She also uses emotionally focused ideas to look at how feelings shape close relationships. Motivational interviewing and narrative techniques help people uncover what matters to them and make changes that fit their lives.
Kim has worked in both nonprofit and personal settings and continues to manage a independent practice while serving as an administrator at a local agency. That mix of roles informs her practical problem-solving style and awareness of system-level stresses like caregiver burden and first responder issues.
In the first sessions she listens for immediate concerns and safety, then works with each person to set clear, achievable goals. Kim aims to build a nonjudgmental space where people can name what hurts and try new ways of coping and relating.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and experience, focusing on listening, reflecting, and helping someone clarify what they want to change. It is useful for stress, low self-esteem, and navigating life transitions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at how emotions shape close relationships and helps people identify patterns that cause distance or conflict; this approach can be helpful for intimacy-related and relationship concerns. Motivational Interviewing is a collaborative way to explore ambivalence and build internal motivation for change, often used for addictions, career moves, or health behavior shifts.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, and together they will decide which methods to try. That collaborative process means approaches can be adjusted as progress is made or priorities shift.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video is good when visual cues matter, phone sessions work well if bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging lets people share between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care when travel or time constraints arise.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English