Kimberly Bailey, LCMHC
Experienced counselor focused on practical change
Explore online therapy optionsWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
How Kimberly works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Years in practice
- 30
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Kimberly
Kimberly Bailey is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with thirty years of experience helping adults navigate hard times. She focuses on practical steps people can use to reduce stress, manage anger, and cope with anxiety or depression. Kimberly uses calm, straightforward guidance to help people set goals and build useful skills.
Her work centers on a warm, respectful relationship. She believes connection with a counselor is the starting point for change.
Background and approach
Sessions concentrate on clear goals, steady progress, and learning ways to handle difficult feelings and situations. Kimberly blends several evidence-informed approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice what matters and commit to values-based actions.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Client-centered principles guide a compassionate, nonjudgmental stance in every session. She has a Master of Arts in Counseling from Appalachian State University and holds the NC Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor credential, LCMHC.
Kimberly also has a background in addiction work and long experience with trauma-related concerns and grief. Clients connect with her for help with relationship strain, self-esteem, career stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and a range of life transitions. She supports people working through substance and process addictions, caregiving stress, cancer-related concerns, and trauma recovery.
Sessions are offered in English and conducted from North Carolina. Work typically focuses on goal setting, skill building, and steady steps toward improved daily functioning and emotional balance.
What Kimberly works with
Everything Kimberly lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Kimberly's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Approaches Kimberly lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How her approaches translate to online sessions
Kimberly commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values, which can ease anger and life stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new actions to change emotional responses, useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to try methods that match their goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is most helpful for the individual's situation and progress.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is helpful for longer talks and skill practice, phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat formats allow brief check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options let people maintain continuity of care while fitting therapy into daily life.
Questions people ask about Kimberly
What concerns does she help with?
Kimberly helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, anger, addictions, trauma, grief, relationship strain, self-esteem, career concerns, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and other life changes.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is direct and supportive. Sessions focus on setting clear goals, building coping skills, and using practical exercises between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She brings thirty years of clinical experience working with adults across a wide range of issues including trauma and addiction.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds an NC LCMHC, which is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor credential, and practices from North Carolina.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
In what formats are sessions available?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.