Kimberly Harris
Compassionate, practical support for life’s challenges
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kimberly
Kimberly Harris is a licensed clinician in Illinois who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and related struggles. She speaks plainly and meets clients where they are. Her goal is to listen first and then shape a plan that fits each person’s life and goals.
She uses straightforward tools drawn from therapies that focus on thoughts, emotions, and skills. Sessions are a mix of talking, practical exercises, and choices about strategies that feel doable.
Background and approach
Kimberly emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every conversation. Her training and eight years of experience inform how she tailors care. She takes time to understand a person’s history and current challenges before suggesting steps forward.
That helps keep work focused and relevant. Kimberly draws on evidence-informed methods like cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach coping skills. She also uses client-centered and mindfulness approaches to help people notice feelings and make different choices.
These methods are adapted to each person’s needs rather than applied the same way for everyone. Many clients come with complicated, overlapping problems such as family issues, parenting concerns, or substance use. Kimberly works to break those problems into manageable parts and build practical skills for day-to-day life.
She supports each person’s pace while encouraging growth and clearer communication. If someone wants to start, Kimberly asks basic questions about goals and history and then helps pick an approach that fits. The early sessions focus on building trust, setting clear goals, and choosing tools that can be practiced between meetings.
Online approaches that focus on skills and feelings
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and the client's own goals. The therapist follows the person’s lead, offering empathy and support while helping them clarify what they want to change.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thought patterns and behaviors. It teaches practical tools for managing anxiety, depression, and stress by changing unhelpful thoughts and building new habits.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, combines skills for managing intense emotions with techniques for improving relationships and tolerating distress. It is often used when strong emotions or self-destructive patterns make life harder.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kimberly will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. Early sessions focus on understanding priorities and trying strategies to see what fits best.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. People can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit care into busy schedules and different time zones. These options make it easier to practice skills between sessions and stay connected when in-person visits are difficult.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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