About Kimberly
Kimberly Pollard Johnson is a licensed clinician in California with eight years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, anger, and life transitions. Kimberly also offers executive coaching for professionals who want clearer direction and better balance.
She works in a respectful and compassionate way. Sessions are adapted to each person's needs and goals. Kimberly listens first, then helps set practical next steps that fit the client’s life.
Background and approach
Her background includes broad clinical work and coaching with adults facing tough changes. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address issues like abandonment, body image struggles, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and communication problems. This mix supports both symptom relief and real-world coping skills.
Kimberly pays attention to patterns that keep problems repeating, such as impulsivity, dependent personality traits, or dissociation. She also helps people navigate separation, divorce, grief after illness or cancer, and recovery from domestic violence. People can expect goal-oriented sessions that combine talking with practical tools.
The approach is collaborative - clients set priorities and Kimberly adjusts the plan as progress unfolds. The aim is clearer choices and better day-to-day functioning, one step at a time.
Practical approaches for online support
Two evidence-based approaches Kimberly commonly uses are skills-focused work and coaching-based strategies. Skills-focused work teaches concrete tools for managing anxiety, anger, and stress so people can use them in daily life. Coaching-based strategies help professionals clarify goals, improve work-life balance, and take practical steps toward career or personal objectives.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kimberly will discuss what feels most useful and adjust methods as goals change. Together the therapist and client choose techniques that match the client’s needs, pace, and preferences rather than sticking to a single method.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let sessions feel familiar and allow face-to-face conversation when needed. Phone sessions are handy when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter updates, on-the-go support, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English