Dr. Kimberley Dockery

Dr. Kimberley Dockery is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in Oregon. She helps people facing anger, stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship strain. Her style is straightforward and caring, and she focuses on clear goals that feel doable for daily life.

She has ten years of clinical experience and substantial work with medical and chronic illness contexts. That background informs how she talks with people about loss, adjustment, caregiving stress, and life changes. Her approach values compassion, respect, and collaboration.

In sessions she listens for how a person’s story links to their relationships, routines, and values. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address thoughts and behaviors, mindfulness to bring attention into the present, and emotion-focused methods to help with connection and difficult feelings. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy strategies are also part of how she supports practical change.

Dr. Dockery aims to set simple, realistic goals with each person. She favors small steps that can be practiced between sessions. That might include focused behavioral tasks, perspective checks, or attention exercises depending on what the client needs.

Her work also covers concerns like parenting stress, caregiving burden, chronic pain and illness, postpartum depression, LGBT and multicultural issues, and career stress. She encourages people to reconnect with what matters to them and to build everyday habits that support those values.

How therapy approaches work online

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice their values and take small actions that match those values even when feelings are hard. It is useful for anger, stress, and life changes where direction matters more than trying to control every feeling.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors. It offers concrete tools for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and anger by changing what people do and think between sessions.

Mindfulness therapy helps bring attention to the present moment in a nonjudgmental way. Simple attention and breathing practices can reduce reactivity and improve concentration for daily tasks.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals, preferences, and what shows up in early sessions. That plan can shift over time as needs change.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know which formats are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins or phone conversations when that suits someone better. Many people find these practical options help keep momentum between appointments.