Kimara Runcie, LCPC, LMHC

Kimara Runcie is a licensed clinician with 12 years of professional experience. She holds an LMHC license in New York and an LCPC license in Maryland. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, depression, and health-related life changes.

Her approach is straightforward and person-focused. She aims to make sessions a place where clients can speak openly without judgment. She emphasizes support and practical steps rather than abstract theory. The goal is clearer thinking and manageable changes that fit day-to-day life.

Kimara blends conversational listening with goal-oriented methods. She uses client-centered techniques to follow what matters most to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools help with thoughts and behaviors that contribute to anxiety and low mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people untangle painful emotional patterns in relationships.

She also brings trauma-focused and solution-focused approaches when those fit a client's goals. That can mean working on coping skills after loss or developing short-term plans to handle a specific challenge. She helps people navigate issues like ADHD, caregiving stress, parenting strain, and job pressures.

Sessions are aimed at practical progress and steadier coping. Kimara encourages small experiments between meetings to test new ways of responding. She works collaboratively with clients to set clear steps and measure what is helping.

Therapeutic approaches you can use online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following what matters to the client. The therapist creates space for people to talk through their concerns and helps them find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings and teaches practical skills to change patterns that fuel anxiety or depression. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and shift emotional responses that keep relationship problems stuck, useful for improving closeness and communication.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try first. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress is tracked.

Confirm current session formats before booking since the biography does not list specific online options. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Working remotely can also let people join from wherever they are located while keeping appointments more convenient for caregiving, work, or treatment for health conditions.