Kimberly Pollard Johnson, LPCC, LMFT
Compassionate clinical care with a coaching focus
About Kimberly
Kimberly Pollard Johnson draws on eight years of clinical work in California to support people managing stress, anxiety, addictions, anger, and major life changes.
Background and approach
She holds licenses as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and she blends clinical care with practical coaching to help clients move forward. Kimberly aims to create a respectful, compassionate space and tailors conversations to each person's situation.
Her approach is direct and solution-focused. Sessions typically include clear goals, real-world strategies, and time to talk through patterns that keep problems recurring.
She helps people identify small changes they can try between sessions and checks in about what works and what doesn’t. Kimberly has worked with professionals who want coaching around career or leadership issues, and with people coping with health concerns such as chronic pain or cancer-related stress.
She also addresses relationship challenges like communication problems, commitment worries, codependency, and separation concerns. Other important areas she supports include body image, abandonment issues, dissociation, guilt and shame, and impulse control.
Kimberly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to each person’s needs. Her style is warm, practical, and focused on measurable steps.
Clients meet by phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions according to therapist availability.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Kimberly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and coping skills. One common approach emphasizes building concrete strategies to reduce anxiety and manage stress, such as breathing exercises, activity scheduling, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. These techniques help people regain a sense of control over daily life.She also works with approaches that target addictive behaviors and impulse control by identifying triggers, developing alternative responses, and creating relapse prevention plans. This method breaks down habits into manageable parts so clients can test new behaviors between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kimberly talks with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they choose and adapt techniques, checking progress and adjusting the plan as needed.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this work. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues for coaching and skill practice, while phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework prompts, and on-the-go coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to try techniques in real life soon after they are learned.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English