Kimberly Smith , LPC

Kimberly Smith is a licensed professional counselor in Alabama who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and big life changes. She focuses on women’s issues among a broad range of concerns and aims to make therapy practical and forward-focused. Her style is down-to-earth and compassionate, with an emphasis on tangible steps that clients can use between sessions.

Kimberly draws on 16 years of clinical experience across rehabilitation counseling, mental health, and substance use settings. That background includes work with mood disorders such as bipolar, co-occurring conditions, and long-term grief. She uses tools that help people manage panic, seasonal affective symptoms, and chronic illness-related struggles.

In sessions she blends client-centered listening with cognitive-behavioral and acceptance-based strategies. That means clients get space to tell their story, and then they and Kimberly identify small experiments and skills to try. She also uses techniques from attachment-focused and dialectical approaches when relationships or strong emotions are central to the problem.

Her goal is practical progress rather than labels. Typical work includes building coping skills for anxiety, creating plans to reduce addictive behavior, improving communication, and finding purpose after loss or change. Kimberly emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and a collaborative plan tailored to each person’s needs.

If you feel stuck or overwhelmed, she encourages a step-by-step path forward. The focus is on regaining hope, strengthening day-to-day coping, and moving toward a life that feels more manageable and meaningful.

How these approaches translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to you and practicing small actions that align with those values, while teaching ways to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, life transitions, and finding direction after loss.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, behaviors, and feelings, and uses exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is commonly used for panic, mood symptoms, stress, and managing impulses or addictive behaviors.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how relationships and early experiences shape current patterns. It can help when relationship difficulties, codependency, abandonment fears, or intense emotions make everyday life harder.

Finding the best fit is treated as a team effort. The therapist will listen to your goals and try a few approaches to see what helps most. Sessions are collaborative and plans are adjusted based on what you report between meetings.

Online work is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let you work face-to-face from a convenient place, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat is helpful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between scheduled meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy or changing schedules.