- Practical coping skills
- Goal focused work
- Emotion skill building
About Kimala
She brings 19 years of experience in community mental health, outpatient settings, and residential treatment programs. Her background includes a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling from Jackson State University and earlier study in business and psychology at William Carey College. Over the years she has provided individual, group, and family sessions in a range of settings.
Kimala favors approaches that target thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking, try new habits, and build skills for managing intense emotions and impulsive urges. Clients often work on clearer goals, coping tools, and steps to handle relationship strain or life transitions.
She also integrates practices from acceptance-based work and emotion-focused methods to help people tolerate hard feelings and strengthen important relationships. This can be useful for grief, trauma, intimacy issues, and compassion fatigue.
Kimala lists living with health challenges among her areas of focus and has experience addressing chronic pain, illness, and disability. Her style is straightforward and goal-oriented, aiming to help people gain tools they can use between sessions.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
19+ years
Credentials
Mississippi
Languages
English
How these approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values even when feelings are difficult. It can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and coping with chronic health challenges. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing different behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. It often suits worries, mood problems, and sleep or eating concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that can reduce impulsivity and improve relationships.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work together with each person to pick methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. That collaboration means plans can change over time as progress and priorities shift.
Confirm current session options before booking, since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, and avoid travel time to appointments. It also lets people practice skills in everyday settings and brings tools directly into day-to-day routines. Licensed professionals can adapt ACT, CBT, and DBT exercises to remote sessions so clients can build skills between appointments without changing the core work.
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting struggles, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, and coping with life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is straightforward and goal oriented. She uses cognitive-behavioral ideas, acceptance-based strategies, and emotion-focused methods to teach coping skills and change unhelpful patterns.
How much experience does she have?
She has 19 years working in mental health settings, including outpatient community care and residential treatment programs.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with an MS in Rehabilitation Counseling and practices in Mississippi.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are international clients accepted?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start therapy with her?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a time according to therapist availability.