About Kimberly
Kimberly Qualls, LMSW, LICSW, helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, and relationship or parenting strain. She focuses on building strength and practical skills. Her tone is straightforward and hopeful, aimed at people looking for steady, useful support.
She uses a client-centered approach that lets people set the pace and priorities for sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are offered to help identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas are used when relationships and feelings are central concerns. Kimberly draws on nine years of experience in social work and clinical settings in Mississippi. That time includes leading summer day treatment groups and running therapeutic activities designed to teach daily living skills.
Those roles gave her hands-on experience spotting risk and resilience in young people and their support systems. In sessions she focuses on simple, doable steps. She helps people set realistic goals, practice new skills, and notice progress.
The work often includes problem-solving around parenting challenges, coping with grief, managing anger, or handling career and financial stress. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing techniques to help people stay present and find internal reasons to change. Sessions tend to be collaborative and practical, with a focus on building stronger relationships, clearer thinking, and better day-to-day habits.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. Online sessions using this approach give space for each person to name goals and guide the work, whether the focus is coping with anxiety, grief, or parenting stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice thinking patterns and try small behavior experiments. In video or phone sessions CBT often involves setting concrete between-session tasks and reviewing progress together to reduce symptoms like panic attacks or persistent worry.
Kimberly treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will work with the client to choose methods that match goals, needs, and preferences and will adjust the plan over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging can provide short check-ins, support between sessions, or a lower-pressure way to start. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules while still using practical CBT, mindfulness, and client-centered techniques.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Michigan, Alabama, Oregon, Washington, California
- Languages
- English
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