About Kimberley
Kimberley Smith-Maxwell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping people move past thoughts and feelings that keep them stuck. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at practical change rather than labels.
Kimberley uses straightforward methods to identify negative thinking patterns. She explains how thoughts, feelings, and the body interact in simple terms. Clients learn concrete coping skills and ways to reframe unhelpful thoughts.
Background and approach
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and shift thinking that sabotages their goals. Kimberley also uses acceptance-based ideas to help clients notice hard feelings without getting overwhelmed. Attachment-informed work helps people understand how early relationships shape current patterns.
Sessions include practicing skills, thinking through real-life choices, and building small routines that support better sleep, mood, and relationships. She helps people address a wide range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, grief, parenting strain, career changes, and ADHD-related challenges. Kimberley explains concepts plainly and offers step-by-step strategies.
The goal is measurable progress people can use outside sessions. Her approach suits those who want clear tools, steady feedback, and an emphasis on daily habits that support lasting change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes where people want clearer direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through exercises and practice between sessions. It supports work on anxiety, mood, sleep, and thinking patterns that interfere with daily life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kimberley will talk with clients about their goals and preferences, and together they choose which methods to try. She pairs skill practice with simple explanations so people know why a strategy might help and how to use it in real situations.
Online therapy offers flexibility and options for busy lives. Video calls let people work face to face while at home or work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing encouragement between appointments. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into a workday, manage follow-up exercises, and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English