About Kimball
Dr. Kimball Pier is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 30 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing big life changes, grief, trauma, relationship strains, and the strong emotions that follow loss.
Her approach is calm and straightforward, focused on practical steps that people can use in daily life. She often combines body-oriented work with attachment-informed thinking to help people feel more grounded. Sessions include talking, paying attention to physical sensations, and building new ways to relate to others.
Background and approach
She also draws on mindfulness practices and relationship tools to support clearer communication and emotional regulation. Dr. Pier has worked with people affected by substance use, depression, and historical or family trauma.
She has long experience with divorce, parenting plans, co-parenting after separation, and blended family dynamics. Many clients come for help with anxiety, stress, self-esteem, and managing anger. Her style is respectful and compassionate.
She listens for each person’s unique story and offers concrete options rather than one-size-fits-all answers. She welcomes conversations about values, identity, and what matters most to each client. Sessions are offered in English and Dr.
Pier accepts international clients. She holds the California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential, CA LMFT 44285, and uses a mix of therapeutic methods to fit each person’s needs.
Somatic and Attachment Work Online
Somatic Therapy focuses on how emotions appear in the body and uses gentle attention to physical sensations to calm the nervous system. It can help when anxiety, trauma, or chronic stress show up as tightness, pain, or overwhelm.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape patterns today. It helps people understand their needs, change repeating patterns, and build more supported ways of relating to others.
Dr. Pier draws on these approaches alongside relationship tools and mindfulness practices. She collaborates with each person to find the right mix of methods based on symptoms, goals, and preferences. Finding the best approach is part of the work together rather than a fixed choice at the start.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. These formats let people continue care from home, manage busy days, and check in between meetings. The variety of options supports consistent progress while fitting therapy into everyday life.
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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