Kimberly Beury

Hi, I'm Kimberly Beury, but please call me Kim. I'm an EMDR-trained therapist experienced in working with adolescents, college students, and adults. My collaborative approach with clients uses an integrative approach to identify and reach their goals. I value an individual’s personal narrative, supporting and connecting with community resources, and dismantling the stigma surrounding mental health and treatment. I have worked in hospitals, community health centers, public health clinics, and nonprofits and am clinically trained in motivational interviewing and advanced trauma-focused therapy for PTSD.

I believe that therapy can look like a lot of different things. My approach integrates psychodynamic techniques supplemented by strength-based and evidence-based practices. I aim to establish a collaborative, nonjudgmental space to address the issues that create distress and dysfunction. Utilizing skills from a variety of clinical approaches including EMDR, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and mindfulness-based stress reduction helps clients learn to alleviate and tolerate distress and improve relationships. Our work together focuses on emotional regulation, self-care, healthy boundaries, and disrupting dysfunctional patterns. Together, clients and I create treatment plans to clarify goals and anticipated outcomes of therapy.

Our first session is structured like an informational interview; it's an opportunity for the client to share what's bringing them to therapy and assess clinical symptoms, functions, and strengths. Subsequent sessions are more client-led. By the second session, we complete a treatment plan to identify what goals and outcomes we are working towards.