Kimara Runcie, LCPC, LMHC

Kimara Runcie is a licensed clinician with 12 years of experience who works to make therapy straightforward and approachable. She holds the Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential and is also a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York. Kimara focuses on helping people who are facing hard life changes and relationship strain, including midlife concerns. She builds a calm, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared. Sessions aim to help clients sort through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma. Kimara also addresses issues like parenting strain, career uncertainty, intimacy questions, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her background includes work with a broad set of concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, adoption and foster care, codependency, and caregiver stress. She uses practical tools from client-centered work and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people change unhelpful thinking and feel heard. Trauma-focused methods are used when past events need careful attention. Kimara favors goal-focused conversations that move toward clear next steps. She brings a solution-focused mindset to help clients identify small changes that matter. The therapeutic relationship is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. People who want straightforward guidance, emotional validation, and practical strategies may find her approach helpful. To start, she asks about current struggles and goals, then works with each person to shape a plan they can try between sessions.

Approaches that guide online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s experience, helping them feel heard and able to set their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses practical steps to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep problems like anxiety and depression going. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and explore important emotions to improve connection and manage relationship challenges.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. That conversation helps shape whether sessions emphasize listening and validation, skill-building from CBT, or deeper emotion work from EFT.

Confirm the session formats before booking, as current options are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing commute time and allowing quicker check-ins during a break. It can also support steady progress with regular, focused conversations and practical homework that can be tried between meetings.