About Kimara
Kimara Runcie is a licensed clinician with 12 years of professional experience. She holds MD, LCPC, and LMHC credentials and offers counseling from Maryland. Kimara centers sessions on open conversation and practical steps forward.
She creates a calm space where people can talk about what matters to them. Sessions focus on honest listening and clear goals. The tone is direct but warm so clients can say hard things without feeling judged.
Background and approach
Kimara uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles. Practical tools are emphasized alongside emotional processing so progress feels useful day to day.
Many clients come for help with parenting stress, work and career pressures, intimacy and communication problems, or major life changes. She also works with people facing burnout, ADHD-related challenges, and issues tied to adoption, attachment, or caregiver strain. Her style is collaborative and solution-minded.
Sessions often include problem-solving, emotion work, and behavior strategies. The aim is to build skills people can use between meetings and to support clearer thinking in stressful moments.
Working with evidence-based approaches online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and can explore their own solutions; it helps with self-esteem, decision making, and emotional clarity. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and uses simple exercises to change them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping skills.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then recommend a blend of methods. That plan is adjusted as progress and needs evolve, and clients take an active role in shaping sessions.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people have a full conversation and use visual cues, while phone sessions work well when video isn't possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when a shorter touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and other obligations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York, Maryland
- Languages
- English