About Kimball
Dr. Kimball Pier helps people facing relationship strain, grief, trauma, addiction, anxiety, depression, and major life changes.
Background and approach
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with thirty years of clinical experience. She listens for what matters most and focuses on practical steps that reduce overwhelm and restore connection.
She commonly works with people navigating separation, co-parenting questions, blended family challenges, and complicated family histories. She also supports those coping with chronic illness or caregiver stress, body image and eating concerns, and problems with anger or self-esteem.
Her practice includes work with substance use and compassion fatigue as well. In sessions she combines attachment-based ideas with mind-body approaches.
She uses conversation along with attention to how emotions show up in the body. That mix helps when past hurts affect present relationships and daily functioning.
Her style is respectful, humble, and direct. She helps people sort out what they want, name blocks, and try new ways of relating.
She also offers practical guidance for mediation, parenting plans, and managing conflict after separation. Clients can expect a calm, steady clinician who values each person’s story.
Dr. Pier aims to offer tools that fit into real life so change feels possible and sustainable.
Approach-focused care through online therapy
Dr. Pier uses attachment-based work to trace how early relationships shape current bonds and trust, helping people improve communication and closeness. She also draws on mindfulness therapy to teach simple attention and breathing practices that reduce anxiety and make strong emotions easier to manage. Somatic therapy is used to notice how stress shows up in the body and to introduce grounding exercises that reduce reactivity and help people feel more present.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. Together they will adjust the plan as progress unfolds so the work matches real needs and daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face-to-face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins and ongoing reflection between full sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue care when travel or relocation occurs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English