Meet the Founder
Hi, I’m Kimberly.
I believe real healing happens through honest human connection… not performance, perfection, or quick fixes.
The work starts when you’re met as you are, not who you think you should be.
My work as a therapist is shaped equally by professional training and lived experience. I know what it’s like to feel disconnected from yourself, overwhelmed by internal noise, and unsure how to move forward. Therapy, as I practice it, is a space where you don’t have to explain away your pain or hide the parts of you that feel complicated or uncomfortable.
My Story
For much of my life, I was searching for belonging; trying to fit into places that required me to shrink, adapt, or silence parts of who I was. I carried deep anxiety, shame, and an inner critic shaped by old conditioning and unmet attachment needs.
My own healing journey began when I experienced what it felt like to be fully accepted. What followed was a long, uncomfortable, and transformative process of turning inward, meeting my anxiety, fear, and protective parts with compassion instead of judgment.
That journey didn’t “fix” me. It helped me come home to myself.
And it’s what led me to this work.
Here’s What I Believe About Therapy:
The relationship you build with your therapist matters more than any single technique or intervention. Healing happens when you feel safe enough to be real.
Much of our suffering comes from internalized stories about who we are and who we’re supposed to be. Therapy is a space to decide whether those narratives actually belong to you.
We all carry different parts of ourselves… protective parts, wounded parts, reactive parts, and hidden parts. When these parts are ignored, they tend to take over. When they are understood and integrated, real change becomes possible.
Growth doesn’t come from forcing change, but from increasing awareness, self-compassion, and internal and relational safety.
You already carry the capacity for healing within you. Therapy doesn’t create that, it helps you access it.
Healing is not linear. It is cyclical, relational, and deeply human.
Symptoms are not problems to eliminate; they are meaningful responses shaped by your experiences, relationships, and nervous system.
What it’s Like to Work with Me
This isn’t surface-level therapy. It’s intentional work, for people ready to go deeper.
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I create space for you to reflect on your lived experience and question the beliefs, rules, and values you’ve inherited, especially the ones that no longer fit.
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I’m not a “tools-only” therapist. Insight, depth, and meaning matter more to me than quick fixes that fade when life gets hard.
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I welcome every part of you, the bright, joyful parts and the ones that live in shadow, the parts you’ve been taught to hide or tone down. All of you is allowed and accepted here.
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Humor matters here. Sarcasm and laughter are welcome, they’re often how truth sneaks in and how connection deepens.
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I will challenge you, lovingly, to let go of what’s keeping you stuck and support you through the grief, fear, or resistance that comes with letting go.
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I don’t avoid hard places. I’ll sit with you in the depth of what you’re carrying, without minimizing or rushing you, but I also promise to not let you get stuck there.
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I show up imperfectly and honestly. I believe vulnerability and transparency are part of healing, and I’ll share my own humanity and my own experiences when it serves your growth.
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I pay attention to cycles, timing, and rhythm. Healing isn’t linear, and neither are we. Expect work that honors the natural ebb and flow of life.
Specialties
This work is more than a profession, it’s a calling. These are the areas where my lived experience and clinical focus most deeply intersect.
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD):
When your body feels like it turns against you each month, it’s not a personal failure… it’s information.
And learning to listen can change everything.
PMDD is not just about hormones. It’s a cyclical, nervous system driven experience shaped by sensitivity, trauma, and the way your body has learned to survive. My work with PMDD is rooted in both lived experience and deep clinical understanding.
Together, we move beyond simply managing symptoms and into listening, learning the language of your cycle, understanding why certain phases intensify emotions, thoughts, and reactions, and creating rituals, supports, and tools that meet you where you are. This work is about integration, not elimination.
Healing with PMDD means building a relationship with your body that is grounded in trust, compassion, and permission… so your life no longer has to shrink around the storm.
Infertility and Pregnancy Loss:
These specializations also come from an intimate understanding of these experiences. What I have found in the journey of fertility, and the sometimes devastating moments we meet along the way, is that inevitably we question everything that we are meant to do in this life. We question purpose, we seek reasons and answers, and often find hopelessness living in the places we look for them. It is pivotal to have a space where you can feel hopeless, where you can rage against the injustices and unfair moments that this journey creates. I offer this to my clients and help them find the answers they seek within themselves as well as redefine their lives and grieve the losses on their path.
Couples Therapy:
My passion and focus in the realm of intimate relationships sparks from an understanding of how pivotal a role our partners can play as we are healing old wounds. It is my belief that if we truly allow our partners to witness our pain, with the right guidance they can be for us what some of the most important people in our lives, when we were younger, could not be. When our partners can reflect for us the parts of self that are loved and worthy, it can often give us permission to see ourselves in that same way. This is the foundation from which growth and healing occurs. In couples therapy I guide couples to be this for each other, much like the way a therapist reflects this back to their clients. Our partners can learn to mirror what we need to see in ourselves in order to help one another to reach their best and highest versions of self.
Anxiety Counseling:
My personal experiences with the paralyzing effects of anxiety have encouraged my pursuit of supporting those who suffer from this debilitating affliction. It is my belief that this disruption comes in its strongest form when we are deeply disconnected from self. I know intimately what it is like to be so detached from yourself that nothing feels safe; what it's like to distrust that life will support you and the pain that comes from knowing how much more exists in this world but fear keeps you from fully accessing. I have found that the greatest liberation from this comes when you return home to yourself and anchor internally, finding safety within instead of seeking it outside. Freedom from anxiety comes when we are confident in our own abilities to overcome and persevere.
Now that we have officially met, here’s all the nitty gritty details:
In 2006, I began working as a Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence advocate and crisis counselor during the completion of my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Gender Studies from Sonoma State University.
In 2008, I answered a deep soul calling and began the pursuit of my Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from The California School of Professional Psychology in San Diego, CA.
In 2009, I began my traineeship as a psychotherapist working with terminally ill clients and their families at the Center for Grief Care and Education at San Diego Hospice. Here I met with the depths of my soul and realized there was so much more to my purpose than I ever could know without this experience.
In 2010, I completed my MA and decided to continue the pursuit of knowledge and enlightenment through the completion of my Doctorate of Psychology in Marriage and Family Therapy from The California School of Professional Psychology in Sacramento, CA.
In 2011, I began working at The Sacramento Children’s Home with adolescents and families facing a multitude of struggles, including family separation, foster care, childhood abuse and neglect, bullying, school related stressors, self-harm, and relationship difficulties.
In 2014, I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation that explored the parent child relationship and the aspects of psychotherapy that most helped enhance it.
In 2015, I officially became a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (#LMFT 85413) and started my own private psychotherapy practice.
In 2015, I also began teaching as an adjunct professor at Alliant International University, in the pursuit of teaching the next generation of therapists how to show up in our work as humans first.
In 2018, I learned to tend to the internal worlds of partners and help couples connect and heal through Level one and two of Relational Life Therapy (RLT).
In 2019, I learned the deep healing that can occur when we tap into our internal value system and utilize a deep sense of acceptance and staying committed to our truth in the completion of Level 1 and Level 2 of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).
In 2019, I also created a business specifically for supporting individuals living with PMDD as a coach at The PMDD Coach (www.thepmddcoach.com).
In 2020, I learned the natural healing power of the human brain in treating our deepest wounds and pain in the completion of the Level 1 Brainspotting training.
And later in 2020, The Path Wellness Center was born as a culmination of the extensive learning, healing and growth that I have experienced as a human, student, professor and licensed clinician over the past 15 years.
So, what does this long list of experiences and training mean to you?
It means I can help. This is my passion and my calling and it has been created through a lifelong pursuit of helping myself and others alleviate suffering.
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