Dr. Kimball Pier
Relationship-focused therapist with broad experience
LMFT California
- Experience
- 30 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Relationship, Family, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Attachment-Based Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Kimball
Dr. Kimball Pier is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 30 years of clinical experience in California.
Background and approach
She helps people facing relationship strain, grief, trauma, parenting stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. Her approach is compassionate and straightforward, aimed at making hard conversations easier to manage.
She guides people through major life transitions and the strong emotions that follow loss and change. Dr.
Pier draws on her long practice helping with family conflict, blended family issues, divorce and separation, and co-parenting arrangements. She also works with those coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress, and end-of-life concerns.
Her methods include Attachment-Based Therapy, the Gottman Method, Jungian ideas about meaning, mindfulness, and somatic work that pays attention to how the body holds stress. These tools are used to improve communication, address attachment wounds, and process trauma in a paced way.
Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings. Clients can expect guided conversations, exercises to change interaction patterns, and attention to feelings that show up in the body.
Dr. Pier emphasizes respect and sensitivity while helping people find new ways to see themselves.
She welcomes stories as starting points for change and works to create a steady, humane therapy experience. Dr.
Pier accepts international clients and conducts sessions through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Dr. Pier uses several complementary approaches to help people in online sessions. The Gottman Method focuses on improving communication patterns and reducing destructive arguments by practicing specific skills and small changes in interaction. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people repair attachment wounds to feel safer and more connected. Jungian Therapy brings attention to meaning, personal narratives, and inner symbols to help people understand life transitions and deeper patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Dr. Pier will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they decide whether a focus on communication skills, attachment repair, somatic awareness, or meaning-making is most helpful at a given stage.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and in-session exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share brief updates, process emotions between sessions, or fit therapy into a busy day. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care across locations and schedules.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
30+ years
Licensed in
California
Languages
English