About Kimberly
Kimberly Pollard Johnson is a licensed counselor and marriage and family therapist in California with eight years of professional experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, anger, and life changes, and also provides executive coaching for professionals. Kimberly approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and supportive. Kimberly adapts conversations and plans to fit each person’s situation.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and goal-oriented, with attention to what is most pressing for the individual. She listens for patterns such as codependency, impulsivity, or relationship communication issues and helps people find clearer ways to respond. People also turn to her for help with body image worries, abandonment concerns, and the emotional effects of chronic illness or cancer.
She offers tools for coping after divorce or separation, for processing guilt and shame, and for managing anger in healthier ways. Her coaching work supports career-focused concerns alongside personal wellbeing. Kimberly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide work on habits, thinking patterns, and behavior change.
She tailors the pace and focus to each person’s goals, whether that means short-term skills for immediate stress or longer work on deeper patterns. Her approach blends practical strategies with a steady, respectful presence. Sessions are offered in English and delivered remotely through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Kimberly helps people set clear, realistic steps so they can track progress and adjust plans as life shifts.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Kimberly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people change unhelpful behaviors and manage strong emotions. One common approach focuses on learning concrete skills to reduce anxiety and stress, such as breathing, grounding, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. These skills aim to lessen avoidance and increase confidence in everyday settings.Another approach centers on identifying patterns in thinking and behavior that fuel problems like addiction, impulsivity, or relationship conflict. Work here involves noticing those patterns, testing new responses, and practicing healthier habits over time. This can help with communication problems, codependency, and commitment concerns.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Kimberly will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether short-term skills work or a longer process is the better fit, and adjustments are made as progress is tracked.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video sessions allow more face-to-face interaction, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue care when life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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