About Kimberly
Kimberly Harris helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also supports clients facing parenting strain, career transitions, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and recovery from trauma and abuse. Kimberly holds an IL LCPC and brings eight years of clinical experience to her practice.
Her style is direct and respectful. She listens first, then shapes conversations to match each person's needs. Sessions are collaborative and focused on practical steps people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Kimberly uses approaches that fit the problem at hand. She draws on client-centered work to build trust, cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking and behavior, and mindfulness skills to increase present-moment awareness. She may include emotion-focused or dialectical strategies when feelings are intense or relationships are central to the concern.
People report concrete goals often guide the work, such as improving sleep, reducing substance use, managing panic, or rebuilding trust after loss. Kimberly adapts pacing and tools to the situation, balancing short-term coping skills with deeper emotional processing when needed. Her practice welcomes English-speaking clients in Illinois and internationally through online formats.
She emphasizes steady progress and practical relief, and encourages anyone struggling to consider a first step toward change.
Approaches for online care and practical change
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship. The therapist listens deeply and follows the person’s pace so clients can name what matters and set realistic goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice thinking and behavior patterns that keep problems going and practices concrete alternatives to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kimberly will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together decide which methods to try first. That might mean starting with skills-based CBT, adding mindfulness practice, or using emotion-focused strategies when relationships are central to the concern. The plan can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, chat sessions are helpful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English