Kimberly Marks

Kimberly Marks is a California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with four years of practice. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, and questions about life purpose. Her background as a long-time high school educator shapes how she listens and asks practical questions about next steps.

She invites clients to slow down and notice what their lives are saying. Conversations focus on patterns in relationships, family of origin influences, and how work and roles take up energy. Kimberly uses straightforward talk, reflective questions, and structured methods to help people clarify what matters now.

Her training includes a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara and a Master of Education from Stanford, plus a B.A. in History from UC Santa Barbara. These credentials inform a therapeutic style that combines clinical insight with real-world experience from two decades in education.

Kimberly often works with parents, young professionals, and people navigating divorce, midlife transitions, or workplace stress. She addresses communication problems, family difficulties, and issues around forgiveness and sexuality in focused sessions. She also supports people dealing with post-traumatic stress and social anxiety.

Practical concerns are part of the work. Sessions can look at concrete steps for parenting, ways to manage grief day-to-day, and strategies for coping with anxiety that interfere with work. She asks clients to identify small experiments to try between meetings and reviews what helps and what doesn’t.

How therapeutic approaches guide online sessions

Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are the foundation of her work. One common approach focuses on identifying repetitive relationship and behavior patterns and then testing small, practical changes. This helps when work stress, family demands, or role expectations feel overwhelming.

Another approach she uses targets processing difficult memories and strong emotional reactions. This method helps people who carry hurt from past events that still affect daily life, such as grief or post-traumatic stress. The emphasis is on gradual processing and building skills to manage strong emotions between sessions.

Deciding which approach fits best is a collaborative process. She reviews what’s been tried before, listens to current goals, and recommends steps to try together. Clients and the therapist check in regularly and adjust the plan based on what is useful.

Confirm current session formats before booking, since this profile does not list specific options. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Talk with her during the matching step about what scheduling rhythm and session length will work best.