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Kimberly is a very nice person and I was glad to get her as a therapist, at first.  She's extremely kind, but she's also very, very quiet.  I saw her for a total of 3-4 times.  At first, I thought she was just letting me babble at the mouth to get know me, but it became clear that was her style.  I told her in the first session I had specific things I wanted to work on.  I told her I have agoraphobia, and I wanted to work on being able to come to my appointments with her on my own, since I live so close.  I told her wanted to work on my OCD and intrusive thoughts.  And I wanted help dealing with my mental ill family member.  She never once asked me about any of those things, other than one time asking me about my family member, to which I replied they were doing better, and that was that.  She never asked again, nor directed the conversation in any way, shape, or form.  She also yawned the entire session, at every single session.  And I am a gesticulator, esp. when I am nervous (meaning I talk with my hands), and at every single session, she looked more at my hands than my face, which made me horribly self-conscious.  So the last session, I sat on my hands so I didn't feel bad about myself and embarrassed for talking with my hands.  I did it a few times during that session, and her eyes went immediately to my hands, which made me feel stupid.  She never once guided our conversations, she never once took what I said and brought it back around to my mental illnesses to see how it may correlate, and never once led the conversations in any way whatsoever.  I don't see how her description on their page says she does CBT or helps those with trauma, when she barely speaks.  Yes, I know I talked a lot, but I would even pause to see if she was going to guide our conversations anywhere, she never once took the opportunity to say anything.  When I get nervous, I get diarrhea of the mouth.  A therapist should realize that and not leave it up to the client to guide the conversations since that's not our job.  We clients have no idea what we're doing.  Therapists are the one with the training, not us.  But yet so many of them just sit there and say nothing.  I don't get it.  I don't get how someone with real mental illnesses can come in and ask for help and yet they refuse to do anything at all.

3 out of 5 stars
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