Kimberly Ream
Compassionate guidance for life’s tough moments
- Credentials
- LPC, LMFT
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kimberly
Kimberly Ream is a licensed professional counselor and licensed marriage and family therapist in Missouri. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, relationship struggles, parenting concerns, or big life changes. Her style is direct and compassionate with a focus on practical steps people can use right away.
She draws on 14 years of clinical experience to tailor sessions to each person’s needs. Kimberly uses clear, down-to-earth language so clients can understand what they’re working on.
Background and approach
Sessions often center on improving communication, managing overwhelming feelings, and setting attainable goals. Kimberly blends several therapy methods to match the issue at hand. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address thought and behavior patterns, client-centered work to create a supportive space, and EMDR when trauma memories interfere with daily life.
She also incorporates relationship tools from the Gottman Method for couples work when appropriate. Her approach emphasizes collaboration. She listens first, then partners with clients to build coping skills and new ways of relating.
The work moves forward at a pace that feels manageable and focused on real-world change. Kimberly holds LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor and LMFT - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credentials. She practices in Missouri and conducts sessions in English.
For someone seeking steady guidance through stressful or painful life moments, her approach aims to be straightforward and humane.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Kimberly uses several evidence-based methods to help people move forward. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, non-judgmental space where a person’s own goals guide the work; it helps when someone needs empathy and clarity to understand their situation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions influence feelings and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns, useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used when traumatic memories keep causing distress and can help reduce the intensity of those memories.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Kimberly will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and what feels comfortable, then suggest which methods might fit best. That decision is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These formats can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow ongoing support between in-person options, and let someone continue care from their home in Missouri. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches to work effectively across these digital formats.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
Next step
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