About Kimberly
Kimberly Donihue is a licensed therapist in Missouri with 16 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and grief. Her style is down-to-earth and collaborative, aimed at practical change for everyday life.
She uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. Sessions often include talk work, skills practice, and steps to manage strong emotions. Kimberly pays attention to attachment patterns and relationship dynamics that shape day-to-day struggles.
Background and approach
People come for help with sleep, eating, attention differences, addiction, and parenting strain. She also supports those coping with chronic illness, cancer, caregiver stress, and major life transitions. Work on self-esteem, intimacy-related concerns, and communication problems is common in her practice.
Kimberly blends client-centered listening with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and emotion-focused work. Dialectical behavior therapy skills and attachment-based ideas are used when they fit the situation. She adjusts the pace and tools to what the person needs right now.
Her background as both an LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - and a Licensed Professional Counselor, along with many years of practice, shapes a broad and flexible approach. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish to meet language needs. The focus is on useful strategies people can try between visits.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and the ways early bonds affect feelings and reactions now; it helps when relationship dynamics, abandonment, or attachment issues are causing distress. Client-centered therapy centers on listening and understanding the person's experience without judgment, helping people feel heard and decide what changes to try. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns and improve mood and behavior.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kimberly will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their goals and comfort level. She adapts strategies over time so the plan stays relevant to changing needs and progress.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people meet. Video calls let therapists see nonverbal cues while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or text-based messaging supports shorter check-ins, quick skill reminders, or people who prefer typing over speaking. These options make it easier to use attachment, client-centered, and CBT techniques in ways that match daily life and schedules.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- 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
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English, Spanish