About Kimberly
Kimberly Sacra is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arizona with 25 years in social services and counseling. She draws on long experience supporting people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and parenting stress. Kimberly offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text to make care practical for busy lives.
She spent many years in direct care roles and crisis counseling before focusing on work connected to foster care and young adults.
Background and approach
That background shaped her focus on attachment, abandonment, and the challenges people face after childhood disruption. It also informs her work with mood disorders, panic, and compassion fatigue. In sessions she uses a client-centered, trauma-aware stance.
She listens for strengths, then helps build coping skills. Practical tools may include mindfulness practices, emotion-focused strategies, and solution-focused planning that fit daily life. Kimberly aims to create an accepting space where people feel heard and validated.
She helps people set small goals and practice steps between sessions. That steady approach is meant to reduce overwhelm and increase confidence in managing strong emotions. Her practice combines direct skill-building with attention to deeper patterns tied to attachment and trauma.
Clients can expect clear, simple techniques and emotional work when needed. She welcomes people who want practical support for life changes and persistent emotional struggles.
How Kimberly’s approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects feelings, and helps people find their own solutions; this approach helps when someone needs a supportive, nonjudgmental space.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name emotions and learn different ways to respond to them. EFT is useful for working through intense feelings tied to attachment, abandonment, or relationship stress and for building stronger emotional regulation.
Kimberly treats the choice of approach as a collaboration. She will talk with the client about goals and preferences, then try techniques that fit those needs. Over time she adjusts methods based on what is most helpful for reducing symptoms and improving daily functioning.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so therapy can fit into a busy schedule. Video is good for fuller conversations and exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is low, live chat or text can be used for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make attending sessions more flexible and practical for different routines and comfort levels.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English