- Years in practice
- 30
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Kimball
Dr. Kimball Pier is a California licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 30 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, anxiety, and addiction.
Her work often focuses on the emotional fallout from big life changes and major losses. Her style is calm and direct. She listens for patterns in family history and current relationships.
Sessions aim to make difficult feelings easier to name and manage.
Background and approach
Practical steps and compassionate reflection are both part of the process. Dr. Pier draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationship patterns show up now.
She uses the Gottman Method for clear work on communication and conflict in close relationships. She also includes somatic practices to help when emotions are held in the body. She has long experience with divorce, co-parenting arrangements, and blended family transitions.
That work includes creating parenting plans and helping parents find steady rhythms after separation. Dr. Pier also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, chronic illness, and end-of-life concerns.
Clients can expect straightforward conversation, gentle interpretation, and concrete strategies to try between sessions. She invites stories about family and loss as starting points for new ways of coping and relating. Many who come to her want practical tools plus space to grieve and process change.
What Kimball works with
Everything Kimball lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Kimball helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Kimball lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Working with attachment, communication, and the body online
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current attachments. It helps people see patterns in their close relationships and build safer ways of relating. The Gottman Method provides clear, research-informed tools for communication and conflict management in partnerships and close bonds. It helps people break repeating cycles and improve everyday interactions. Somatic Therapy connects feelings to bodily sensations and teaches gentle practices to reduce physical tension tied to trauma or stress. This can be useful when strong emotions are hard to name.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will listen to your goals, test methods, and adjust what you try together. Some sessions may lean into talking and reflection, while others use exercises or body-based practices. The plan evolves as you notice what helps and what needs change.
Online work makes these approaches easier to fit into life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging offer short, on-the-go exchanges and ongoing support between appointments. Together these options increase flexibility so therapy can match a parent's schedule and needs.
Questions people ask about Kimball
What kinds of concerns does Dr. Pier address?
She supports people with relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, trauma and abuse, stress and anxiety, addictions, eating and body image issues, anger, and self-esteem problems.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is calm, direct, and practical. She combines listening and reflective feedback with concrete strategies to try between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 30 years of clinical experience working in varied settings with individuals facing major life changes and complex family issues.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, LMFT, practicing from California.
Can sessions be conducted in other languages or with international clients?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs and schedules.
How are sessions paid for and what does cost look like?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working together?
To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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