About Kimberly
Kimberly Lackey is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in North Carolina with 25 years of experience. She helps people facing stress and anxiety, grief and loss, and concerns related to LGBT identity. She also supports clients working on motivation, self-esteem, confidence, and ADHD-related struggles.
She believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths into the room. Sessions focus on practical steps and real-life tools rather than long theory talks.
Background and approach
Kimberly aims to make the first steps feel manageable and direct, so people can start seeing small changes quickly. Her sessions tend to be collaborative and down-to-earth. She uses approaches that center the client, build skills to shift unhelpful thinking, and set short-term, achievable goals.
That combination helps with everyday stress, work issues, relationship strain, and transitions. Over her career she has worked with many concerns tied to identity, loss, and life purpose. Kimberly also offers coaching-style support when people want focused help with goals like improving confidence or managing distractions.
Her work often balances empathy with clear, step-by-step strategies. If someone is feeling stuck by anxiety, grief, or low motivation, she helps them identify what matters and what to try next. The tone in sessions is respectful and practical, aimed at building skills people can use between meetings.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person's own goals and values. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects back understanding, and helps people make choices that fit their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical ways to change patterns that cause distress. It is helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress that interfere with daily routines.Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, concrete steps toward clear goals. It is useful when someone wants quick strategies to manage motivation, work problems, or relationship issues. Together, these approaches let sessions be both warm and action-oriented, tailored to what each person needs.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and Kimberly will work collaboratively to figure out what fits best. She checks in about goals and preferences, and adjusts methods as progress or challenges emerge. Clients help set the pace and choose which techniques to try.
Online sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different days and routines. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone may be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit brief check-ins or busy schedules. These options help people keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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