About Kimberly
Kimberly Bailey is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with thirty years of experience helping adults navigate stressful and painful life moments. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, addictions, grief, trauma, and relationship strains. Kimberly listens first and focuses on building a working relationship that feels respectful and clear.
She draws on person-centered principles to make sessions feel collaborative and grounded in the client's goals.
Background and approach
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify patterns of thinking that get in the way, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to develop values-based action steps. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are woven into sessions when they fit the client's needs. Kimberly has a Master of Arts in Counseling from Appalachian State University and holds her LCMHC in North Carolina.
Her long practice includes individual and group work across many concerns, including trauma, process and substance addictions, caregiver stress, and issues related to chronic illness and aging. In session she helps people set clear, doable goals and build practical coping skills they can use day to day.
Conversations are straightforward and focused on what will make life more manageable - fewer overwhelm cycles, clearer choices, and steadier mood regulation. Her approach suits people who want a steady, experienced counselor who listens and helps translate therapeutic ideas into real-life steps. She offers services in English and provides online sessions by phone, video, chat, or text.
How Kimberly uses therapy approaches online
Kimberly often blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values even with uncomfortable feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing it with real-life experiments to change behavior and mood.She approaches online care collaboratively. The first sessions focus on understanding goals, routines, and what the client wants to change. Together they pick approaches that match the person's goals and preferences and adjust them as progress is made.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for deeper weekly sessions, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports brief ongoing tracking or coaching between sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, or health needs while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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