Kimberly Smith , LPC

Kimberly Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Alabama with 16 years of experience working across rehabilitation counseling, mental health, and substance use treatment. Her career has included roles supporting people with a range of diagnoses and life challenges, including borderline intellectual functioning, schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, and co-occurring conditions. She draws on that breadth of practice to help clients build practical stress management skills and effective coping strategies for anxiety, addiction, trauma, parenting concerns, and complicated grief.

Kimberly emphasizes a collaborative, individualized approach that honors how life experiences shape emotional responses and perceptions. She uses person-centered and cognitive behavioral methods alongside other evidence-based approaches to tailor conversations and treatment plans to each person's needs. Her work often addresses relationships, family dynamics, self-esteem, anger, career concerns, and mood or panic symptoms, and she also supports people facing chronic illness, codependency, isolation, and questions about life purpose.

Recognizing how difficult it can feel to seek change, Kimberly offers respectful, sensitive, and compassionate care aimed at helping clients move forward toward greater hope, meaning, and daily functioning. She is accepting new clients, including international clients, and provides therapy in English.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Kimberly Smith integrates approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to support clients through online sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and build psychological flexibility so they can take meaningful steps toward a life they care about; it is often useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and challenges with motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and adjusting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and provides practical skills for managing symptoms of depression, anxiety, panic, and stress.

Choosing the right approach is part of the collaborative process. Kimberly works with each person to assess needs, goals, and personal preferences and adapts techniques so the plan fits the individual rather than applying a one-size-fits-all solution.

Online therapy with Kimberly is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities, and they allow licensed professionals to deliver consistent therapeutic support across distances.