About Kimberly
Kimberly Ream is a licensed counselor who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationships, grief, and major life changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in Missouri. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy feel manageable for busy lives.
She focuses on building understanding about what drives feelings and behaviors. Sessions often center on clearer communication, practical coping skills, and steps to reduce overwhelming emotions.
Background and approach
Kimberly combines thoughtful listening with tools people can use between appointments. She uses several approaches to tailor care to each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more balanced thinking.
Client-Centered Therapy makes room for people to lead the conversation while the therapist follows their pace. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is used for those working through traumatic memories. With 14 years of experience, she has supported people facing workplace stress, addiction struggles, parenting strain, grief, and attachment concerns.
She also addresses issues such as body image, codependency, and intimacy-related difficulties. Her background blends practical strategies with attention to personal meaning and values. Kimberly aims for a respectful, nonjudgmental atmosphere where clients can try new ways of coping.
She works collaboratively to set goals and track progress. Sessions are offered through a variety of online formats to fit different schedules.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the client's lead and building understanding through careful listening. Online sessions using this approach let the therapist reflect concerns and priorities so clients set the pace and direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions by teaching concrete skills. In remote sessions CBT can include reviewing patterns, practicing new responses, and setting short exercises to try between meetings, which is helpful for anxiety, depression, and everyday stress.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) works with processing traumatic memories and reducing their emotional charge. When delivered online it combines guided bilateral stimulation with focused memory work and careful preparation, suitable for people addressing past trauma.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will discuss options, listen to what matters to the client, and adapt methods as goals become clearer. That collaborative planning helps ensure therapy fits personal needs and circumstances.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow full visual interaction for skills practice and deep conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging provide quick ways to touch base, track progress, or get brief support between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other daily demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English