About Kimara
Kimara Runcie is a mental health professional with 12 years of experience. She holds an MD, LCPC, and LMHC and practices in Maryland. She focuses on creating a calm place to talk and to begin change.
She aims to make sessions straightforward and direct. Kimara encourages people to name what feels most urgent. She listens for patterns in thinking and feeling, then helps build small, practical steps to try between sessions.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma and abuse. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, career stress, and coping with life changes. Additional areas of focus include ADHD, attachment and abandonment challenges, adoption and foster care issues, and caregiver stress.
Kimara uses approaches like Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. In session she combines listening with clear tools so people can test what works for them. She supports clients who want both short-term problem solving and longer-term emotional work.
Sessions can include conversations about coping skills, tighter communication habits, or planning next steps after loss or upheaval. The aim is to leave each meeting with a practical idea to try. Kimara works with people who want steady, respectful care and measurable ways to move forward.
How practical therapy and online options work together
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and making space for each person's perspective. It helps people feel heard and decide what matters most to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down unhelpful thinking and builds new habits through clear, step-by-step exercises. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and name important feelings and patterns in close relationships, which can shift how they connect and communicate.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods, and adjust plans as needed. That collaborative process means the approach can change over time to match what helps most.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video lets people work face-to-face when that matters. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, and quick coaching between meetings. These options add flexibility so people can use methods that suit their schedule and communication preferences.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York, Maryland
- Languages
- English