Kimbly Kellam, LPC

Kimbly Kellam is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 20 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem. Her approach treats each person as the expert in their own life and focuses on practical steps toward feeling better.

Kimbly listens without judgment and looks for strengths clients already have. She offers straightforward guidance and tools rather than jargon. Sessions often include skills for coping with strong emotions and for improving daily routines that affect mood and energy.

Her background includes work across a range of concerns such as chronic pain and illness, aging and geriatric issues, substance use and process addictions, obsessive or compulsive behaviors, postpartum depression, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people dealing with isolation, guilt, forgiveness, and questions about life purpose.

Kimbly draws from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior approaches, mindfulness practices, motivational interviewing, and narrative techniques. These methods are used to help people reframe difficult thoughts, build tolerable coping skills, and make concrete changes.

She frames therapy as a partnership where the client’s goals guide the work. Kimbly encourages small, achievable steps and helps track progress along the way. People seeking a practical, respectful counselor for long-term concerns or life transitions may find this approach helpful.

How these approaches translate to online work

Kimbly uses client-centered therapy to follow each person’s lead and focus sessions on what matters most to them. This approach helps when someone needs a safe space to talk things through and identify personal goals.

She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thinking patterns and practical behavior changes. CBT gives clear exercises and small homework tasks to try between meetings, which can be easy to use in an online format.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they plan which skills to practice and how to adapt them to daily life.

Session logistics are not detailed in the biography, so confirm available formats before booking. Online therapy can make it simpler to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for brief check-ins when schedules are tight. It also supports using worksheets, in-the-moment coaching, and mindfulness exercises that transfer directly into everyday routines.