About Kirk
Dr. Kirk Thiemann is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with ten years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and major life changes.
He also supports those dealing with addictions, grief, identity questions, and issues related to parenting and intimacy. He uses a direct and practical style that aims to make therapy understandable and useful. In sessions he helps people sort out thoughts and feelings, build self-trust, and take steps toward choices that fit their values.
Background and approach
He emphasizes honest, authentic living rather than quick fixes. Over a decade of work has included roles as a mental health counselor, career counselor, academic counselor, and family counselor. He also teaches counseling courses to counselors-in-training, which keeps his approach connected to current practice.
That background informs how he frames problems and offers real-world strategies. He draws on client-centered methods to place the person’s goals at the center of sessions. He also uses existential ideas to look at meaning and direction, and motivational interviewing to help people find internal reasons to change.
These approaches are used to address practical concerns like career decisions, communication problems, and coping with illness or loss. Located in Idaho, he works with people who want to move beyond surviving and toward a more purposeful life. He describes therapy as challenging work that can bring hope, clearer direction, and a stronger sense of self.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. It means sessions start from your goals and feelings, with the therapist listening closely and helping you name what matters. This approach is useful for issues like self-esteem, relationship concerns, and decisions about life direction.Existential therapy looks at meaning, choice, and responsibility. It encourages talking about what gives life purpose and how to make authentic choices. That perspective can help when someone feels empty, stuck, or is coping with grief, illness, or major life change.
Motivational interviewing helps people find internal reasons to change behavior. It uses guided conversation to resolve mixed feelings and build motivation, which can be helpful for addiction, health behavior change, or moving through career shifts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan as needs change. That relationship helps shape which techniques get used and how progress is tracked.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video is useful for full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or you prefer voice only, live chat or messaging can be a shorter check-in or helpful between sessions. These options increase flexibility for scheduling and let people use formats that match their day-to-day needs.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English