- Client-centered care
- Practical tools
- Trauma-informed work
About Kimberly
Kimberly Richards is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 11 years of experience in outpatient mental health. She holds an LCSW and an LMSW and practices in Michigan. Her work often focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, and life transitions.
She uses a warm and interactive style in sessions. Kimberly emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while listening to each person’s story. She blends a client-centered outlook with practical techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches.
In sessions she helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavioral changes. She also uses motivational interviewing to support readiness for change and solution-focused strategies to set concrete, short-term goals. Trauma-informed practices guide work with past hurts and grief.
Her background includes care for people facing addiction concerns, parenting and family stress, ADHD, anger, and compassion fatigue. She also has experience with adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, and mourning after loss.
Kimberly describes her work as faith-informed for those who want it; she brings her Christian perspective alongside therapeutic tools when clients request it. She invites collaboration, treating each person as the expert in their own life and helping them move toward manageable changes.
She uses a warm and interactive style in sessions. Kimberly emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while listening to each person’s story. She blends a client-centered outlook with practical techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral approaches.
In sessions she helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavioral changes. She also uses motivational interviewing to support readiness for change and solution-focused strategies to set concrete, short-term goals. Trauma-informed practices guide work with past hurts and grief.
Her background includes care for people facing addiction concerns, parenting and family stress, ADHD, anger, and compassion fatigue. She also has experience with adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, and mourning after loss.
Kimberly describes her work as faith-informed for those who want it; she brings her Christian perspective alongside therapeutic tools when clients request it. She invites collaboration, treating each person as the expert in their own life and helping them move toward manageable changes.
This summary is based on the profile information listed on BetterHelp.