Kim Rippy

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and Board Approved Clinical Supervisor in Virginia. I guide adults out of anxiety, burnout, and disconnection and into confidence, balance, and connection - both to self and others.

With a compassionate and collaborative approach guided by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), I work to empower my clients to embrace their thoughts and feelings without judgment, while fostering emotional resilience and deeper connections.

By integrating ACT’s mindfulness and values-driven techniques with EFIT’s focus on emotional bonding and attachment, I help my clients navigate personal challenges, enhance their emotional well-being, and build meaningful, fulfilling relationships.

I show up for my clients as a human first, always. I describe my relationship with my clients as a “professional friendship.” You have to feel comfortable and familiar with me as a person before you can feel safe with me as your therapist.

I show up as my authentic self – sarcasm, swearing, laughing, crying, and all – so you can feel safe as your authentic self too. I crochet during our sessions (helps me regulate my body ADHD so my brain focuses on you), and I invite my clients to craft, color, or use fidgets during our sessions as well.

I’m real, I’m honest, and I genuinely care about you – and I have the tattoos to prove it (yes, you can ask)! I’ll connect with you first, person to person, guide you through your heartbreak and love, personal challenges and growth, pain and healing, and step out with you on the other side of it all, into a life you’re proud to live.

If you’re feeling lost, overwhelmed, burnt out, burdened, anxious, fearful, or full of self-doubt, I’m here to help you change that. You deserve to live a life with purpose, direction, confidence, balance, love, joy, and full of continuous growth. My purpose is to help you put down the weight you’ve been carrying for so long, and allow yourself to feel safe and confident in who you are.