About Kimara
Kimara Runcie is a licensed clinician with 12 years of experience who helps people take first steps toward change. She holds an MD, is an LCPC, and is a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Her work focuses on building an open space where clients can share thoughts and feelings without judgment.
She keeps sessions straightforward and practical. Kimara listens first, then helps people set clear goals. She uses approaches that include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, emotionally-focused techniques, solution-focused steps, and trauma-focused methods depending on what a person needs.
Background and approach
People come to her for many concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, and challenges related to parenting or family roles. Her practice also supports those coping with ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, career stress, compassion fatigue, and life changes that feel overwhelming.
In sessions, Kimara aims to empower people to notice what is working and try small, manageable changes. She balances active problem-solving with space to process emotions. Her style is warm and direct, with an emphasis on clear next steps and skills people can use between meetings.
Kimara is based in Maryland and communicates in English. She offers a range of session formats to fit different schedules and needs. The overall goal is to help each person feel more capable of handling daily demands and move toward the kind of life they want.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting. It helps people feel understood and clarifies what they want to change or keep. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills to test and change them. Trauma-focused work offers tools to process difficult memories and reduce their impact on daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose strategies to try and adjust the plan as progress is made so the approach fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful when visual cues and deeper conversation matter. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a hands-free check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging are helpful for short check-ins, homework support, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options help people fit regular work on goals into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- 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)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York, Maryland
- Languages
- English
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