About Kimala
Kimala Flowers is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 19 years in the mental health field. She works with adults who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, ADHD, and other everyday challenges. Her style is practical and goal focused to help people find manageable ways forward.
She began with a Bachelor of General Studies in Business Administration and Psychology from William Carey College and earned a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling from Jackson State University.
Background and approach
Over nearly two decades she has worked in outpatient community mental health and residential treatment settings. That experience includes individual, group, and family work with a wide range of concerns. In sessions she uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and trauma-informed methods when those tools fit the situation. The aim is to build coping skills, reduce distress, and set clear, achievable goals. Clients can expect concrete strategies and chances to practice new ways of handling strong emotions and impulses.
She takes a straightforward, compassionate approach to problems like substance use, suicidal thinking, anger, and relationship strain. Kimala emphasizes small steps that add up to lasting change. Her work also covers parenting stress, sleep and eating concerns, career worries, and questions of identity and intimacy.
People who want a therapist who pairs practical skill-building with a respectful, person-centered stance may find her approach helpful.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches step-by-step techniques to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with anxiety, depression, and impulse control. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to manage intense emotions and reduce self-destructive behaviors.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan over time. That collaborative process helps match skills and exercises to what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video lets people work face to face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text are useful for quick reflections, homework prompts, and people who prefer written conversation. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, parenting, and day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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