Kimberly Harris, MFT-LP

Professional Introduction

Life can feel overwhelming when anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, family conflict, or major life transitions begin to affect how you feel about yourself and how you connect with the people around you. Kimberly Harris, MA, LMFTLP, is a compassionate Marriage and Family Therapist who provides a warm, affirming, and culturally responsive space where individuals, couples, and families can feel seen, heard, and respected.

Kimberly understands that emotional wellness does not exist separately from relationships, family history, culture, identity, or lived experience. Her work is grounded in an understanding of how personal experiences may be shaped by family patterns, social environments, and systemic challenges, including racism, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, discrimination, and other forms of oppression.

Through a collaborative and respectful therapeutic relationship, Kimberly helps clients better understand their experiences, recognize patterns that may no longer serve them, strengthen relationships, and develop meaningful strategies for healing and growth.

My Approach to Therapy

Kimberly believes that therapy should be a space where clients can bring their full selves without fear of judgment. Her therapeutic style is warm, compassionate, collaborative, and grounded in cultural humility.

Rather than taking a one-size-fits-all approach, Kimberly works with each client to understand their unique story, relationships, strengths, challenges, and goals. She recognizes that the experiences people carry today are often connected to family patterns, past relationships, cultural expectations, trauma, and the environments in which they have learned to survive and connect.

Kimberly helps clients explore the relationship between past experiences and present-day emotions, behaviors, communication patterns, and relationships. Her work supports clients in developing greater self-awareness, strengthening emotional regulation, improving communication, establishing healthier boundaries, and creating more fulfilling connections.

For couples and families, Kimberly provides a supportive environment for identifying unhealthy interaction patterns, improving communication, rebuilding emotional connection, and developing healthier ways of navigating conflict. Her goal is not to assign blame but to help clients understand the patterns within their relationships and work toward meaningful, sustainable change.

Specialties & Areas of Focus

• Anxiety and depression

• Trauma and PTSD

• Relationship challenges

• Couples counseling

• Family conflict and family relationship concerns

• Communication difficulties

• Life transitions and adjustment challenges

• Identity exploration

• Grief and loss

• Self-esteem and personal growth

• Cultural and systemic stressors

• LGBTQIA+ affirming therapy

• Intergenerational and family-of-origin patterns

• Immigration-related psychological evaluations

Therapeutic Modalities

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

  Kimberly helps clients identify connections between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors while developing practical strategies to challenge unhelpful patterns and create healthier responses.

• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) 

  This approach supports clients in understanding emotional needs, attachment patterns, and relationship dynamics that can influence connection, conflict, and emotional security.

• Gottman Method

  In her work with couples, Kimberly uses principles informed by the Gottman Method to support healthier communication, improve conflict management, deepen friendship and emotional connection, and strengthen relationship stability.

• Bowen Family Systems Theory

  Kimberly helps clients explore family patterns, intergenerational dynamics, emotional processes, and the ways family relationships may influence present-day behaviors and relationships.

• Mindfulness-Based Approaches

  Kimberly incorporates mindfulness practices to help clients develop greater awareness of their thoughts and emotions, strengthen emotional regulation, and respond to stress with greater intention.

• Trauma-Informed Care

  Kimberly approaches therapy with an understanding of how trauma can affect emotional well-being, relationships, identity, and a person’s sense of safety. She prioritizes trust, collaboration, respect, and client choice throughout the therapeutic process.

Education & Credentials

• Marriage and Family Therapist Limited Permit- LMFT-LP

• Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy- Touro University Graduate

Client Focus

• Adolescents

• Adults

• Individuals

• Couples

• Families

She welcomes clients from diverse racial, cultural, ethnic, gender, and sexual identities and provides LGBTQIA+ affirming and culturally responsive care.

Kimberly is particularly attuned to the ways that identity, family systems, relationships, cultural expectations, discrimination, and systemic oppression can affect mental health and emotional well-being. Her goal is to provide a space where clients do not have to minimize or separate these experiences from the work they are doing in therapy.