About Kimberly
Kimberly Rakiec is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) who aims to help people who feel stuck by offering steady, practical support. She listens first to understand what is happening now and what a person wants to change. Sessions focus on clear goals and steps that can fit into everyday life.
Kimberly begins by learning about a person's current circumstances and worldview. She helps people name problems they may not yet see and sorts out priorities together.
Background and approach
That makes it easier to choose approaches and small actions that feel useful right away. Her work draws on solution-focused ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful patterns. She also uses client-centered principles that keep the conversation grounded in the person's values and experience.
These methods are applied with compassion and direct feedback to keep therapy moving forward. Clients come with a range of concerns, from anxiety and depression to sleep trouble, relationship strain, workplace stress, and coping with life changes. Kimberly pays attention to how trauma, caregiver stress, or feelings of isolation can affect daily functioning and decision making.
Her style is collaborative and goal-oriented. She asks for regular feedback to make sure sessions are meeting needs and adjusting as goals change. The first session focuses on what brought someone to counseling and what they hope to achieve next.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thinking and reconnect with what matters to them. It teaches simple practices to reduce avoidance and make steadier choices in daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing patterns of thinking and behavior that fuel anxiety, depression, or sleep problems. CBT gives concrete strategies and short exercises people can use between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience, using active listening and reflection to help someone feel understood and to build an honest working relationship.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Kimberly will talk through options and adjust methods as goals and needs become clearer. Many people find that blending these approaches provides both practical tools and space to process feelings, and she will work with each person to find the best fit.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video is useful for deeper conversations and guided exercises, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging can help people keep progress between meetings. These formats make it easier to attend sessions from work, home, or while traveling and offer flexibility for ongoing care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English