About Kimberley
Kimberley Smith-Maxwell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 16 years of experience helping people manage emotional and practical problems. She focuses on clear, straightforward guidance so clients can understand what is happening and take steps forward. Kimberley aims to help people recognize unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and find ways to change them.
She uses practical cognitive tools to identify negative thinking patterns that get in the way of daily life.
Background and approach
Kimberley explains how thoughts, feelings, and body sensations connect, and she teaches coping skills people can practice between sessions. Her approach emphasizes small, doable changes rather than overwhelming lists of tasks. Clients come to her with many concerns, including anxiety, stress, depression, grief, relationship issues, anger, sleep or eating problems, career strain, and ADHD.
She also supports people facing trauma, compassion fatigue, caregiving stress, and life transitions that leave them stuck or uncertain. Her work draws from several well-known approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused perspectives, and skills from dialectical work. Kimberley brings these together in a client-centered way so each person gets what fits them best.
She practices from Texas and speaks English. Sessions are available through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging, which lets clients choose what fits their day. Getting started is simple: complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session.
How Kimberley Uses Evidence-Based Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to values-driven action. It uses simple exercises to clarify what matters most and to build behaviors that match those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing negative thinking patterns and related behaviors, giving people practical tools to reduce anxiety, depression, and unhelpful habits. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationships shape current reactions and helps people develop healthier ways of relating to themselves and others.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. Kimberley will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try approaches and adjust plans so the work fits the person’s life and needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth or comfort with video is limited, and chat or text can be good for brief check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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