About Kimberly
Kimberly "Kim" Frey is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 20 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, self-esteem struggles, attention challenges, and family-related concerns. She approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and a calm, steady presence. Kim aims to make first steps feel doable for people who are unsure where to begin.
Kim listens closely and adapts conversations to what each person needs. She focuses on practical skills people can use between sessions, such as breathing and grounding techniques, clearer communication, and breaking big problems into smaller steps.
Background and approach
Sessions move at the client’s pace and emphasize real-world changes rather than only talking about feelings. Her background includes two decades of clinical work in California, with experience across many common and complex issues. That includes work related to abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family tensions, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and body image concerns.
She also supports people facing commitment worries, codependency, and communication problems. Kim draws from several therapy styles to tailor support to each person. She uses client-centered methods to focus on the person’s goals, cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness tools to build steady attention.
She also brings solution-focused strategies to set short-term goals and dialectical behavior tools for managing intense emotions. Kim keeps language simple and practical in sessions. She helps people build useful routines, practice new skills, and track progress.
The aim is to help people regain confidence and clearer direction in daily life.
Online approaches that meet everyday needs
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s goals and values and lets the conversation follow what matters most to the client. It helps when someone needs a listening space and support to clarify priorities. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches simple steps to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, low mood, and attention-related struggles. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers concrete tools for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which helps when stress or conflict feels overwhelming.Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust as you learn what helps. That collaborative process makes it easier to find techniques you keep using after sessions end.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let people fit sessions into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging give shorter, more frequent check-ins and a way to work on skills between sessions. These options aim to make consistent care more flexible and easier to maintain.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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