Kimberly Pollard Johnson is a licensed clinician in California with eight years of professional experience.
01About Kimberly
Kimberly Pollard Johnson is a licensed clinician in California with eight years of professional experience. She holds LPCC and LMFT credentials and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, anger, and life transitions. Her approach is direct and practical, aimed at making therapy usable in everyday life.
Kimberly adapts conversations and plans to fit each person’s situation. She uses coaching-style work when helpful, so clients leave sessions with clear next steps.
Background and approach
Her style is respectful and compassionate while staying focused on change. She also supports people facing abandonment issues, body image concerns, chronic illness or pain, and the emotional impact of cancer. Additional areas she addresses include codependency, communication problems, dissociation, divorce and separation, and impulsivity.
These are woven into practical strategies during sessions. Clients can expect a blend of therapeutic talk and skills practice. Sessions often include ways to manage strong emotions, improve daily coping, and set achievable goals.
Kimberly emphasizes small, steady steps instead of quick fixes. The work is collaborative. She will help identify priorities, track progress, and adjust plans as needs change.
The aim is to create tools clients can use after therapy ends, so gains last beyond the session.
02Credentials
- LMFT (California)
- License 110589 · expires November 2026
- LPCC (California)
- License 6750 · expires July 2027
- NPI
- 1750036539 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Kimberly lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- 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
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04Online support
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Kimberly uses evidence-based techniques that focus on skills and real-life change. One common approach emphasizes learning coping skills for strong emotions and anxiety, helping people notice triggers and try new responses that reduce distress. Another approach resembles coaching and problem-solving work, which breaks larger goals into small, doable steps and tracks progress session to session.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kimberly will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She adjusts plans over time so the work stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people have a full conversation and use visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the focus on progress and practical tools.
05Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Kimberly address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, addictions, anger, coping with life changes, and coaching. She also works on issues like abandonment, body image, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and divorce.
How would you describe the therapy style?
The style is practical and collaborative, mixing therapeutic conversation with coaching techniques to create clear next steps and everyday coping tools.
What is her professional background?
She has eight years of professional experience working with people on emotional and behavioral concerns in clinical and coaching contexts.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is licensed in California and lists credentials as LPCC and LMFT.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
How are fees and subscriptions handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
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