Dr. Kimberley Dockery, LMFT

Dr. Kimberley Dockery is a licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and relationship strain. She frames sessions around clear goals so clients know what to work on and why. Her style is practical and direct while remaining warm and respectful.

She draws on ten years of clinical experience, including work with people facing chronic illness and caregiver stress. Dr. Dockery pays attention to how life context and relationships shape problems. That means she looks at patterns in daily life and interactions, not just symptoms alone.

In sessions she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Client-Centered methods, Emotionally-Focused practices, and mindfulness. Those approaches are used to teach concrete skills for mood, sleep, and stress, and to improve communication and connection. The work often includes short exercises, practical behavior changes, and noticing thoughts and feelings.

Her background as a medical family therapist informs how she supports people coping with illness, cancer, chronic pain, and caregiver strain. She also helps with parenting challenges, postpartum depression, seasonal mood shifts, and career or life-purpose questions.

Dr. Dockery is licensed in Oregon as an LMFT and offers sessions in English. She welcomes international clients and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect people to scheduling options.

Practical approaches for online support

Dr. Dockery uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, often through short in-session exercises and home practice to improve mood and sleep. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while coping with difficult feelings.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try interventions that fit the situation, and adjust the plan over time if something isn’t working. Clients and therapist decide together which methods feel most useful.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper, face-to-face conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports day-to-day coaching and brief reflections. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different time zones.