- Guilt and shame work
- Grief and loss
- Attachment focus
About Kim
Kim Class is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey with 28 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief and loss, intimacy concerns, and other life changes. Her background includes work in non-profit settings and private practice while also serving as an administrator at a local agency.
Kim favors straightforward conversation in sessions. She focuses on listening first, then helping people notice patterns in their feelings and behavior. Sessions include practical steps and reflections, not lectures. She aims to make it easier to talk about shame, guilt, and sensitive topics that are hard to name.
Her approach draws on client-centered methods and emotionally-focused work to look at attachment and how relationships shape feelings. She also uses motivational interviewing and narrative techniques to help people reframe their stories and set small, realistic goals. Psychodynamic ideas inform longer-term patterns she sees across a person’s life.
Across many years Kim has supported people with depression, bipolar presentations, addiction concerns, caregiving stress, and the aftermath of trauma. She also attends to communication problems, blended family challenges, and issues around commitment and codependency. Her practice includes work with LGBT people and those coping with first responder stress.
Kim works in English and is based in New Jersey. The practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Before booking, readers should confirm current session options and formats to match their needs.
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what someone says so they can make sense of their feelings. It helps when guilt or shame feel overwhelming because the therapist follows the client's lead and clarifies what matters most to them.Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at how people respond to strong emotions in close relationships. EFT helps identify patterns in attachment and teaches ways to express needs and fears more clearly, which can change how people relate to others and to themselves.
Motivational Interviewing is a practical way to find motivation for change. It uses brief, directed conversations to set small goals and reduce barriers when someone feels stuck or ambivalent about making changes.
Choosing an approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels workable. Together they decide which methods to use and can adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Confirm the exact session formats before booking since formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, reduce travel time, and let people choose whether to use video or audio depending on bandwidth or comfort. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches to the online setting to focus on feelings, relationship patterns, and practical steps.
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Primary focus
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
28+ years
Listed in
New Jersey
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, intimacy-related issues, addiction concerns, depression and bipolar presentations, and related challenges.
How would she approach feelings of guilt or shame?
She uses client-centered listening and emotionally-focused methods to name painful feelings and look at how they link to relationships and past experiences.
What is her professional background?
She has 28 years of professional experience, having worked in both non-profit agencies and private practice while also serving as an agency administrator.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey and practices from that state.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English and she does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are offered?
Confirm current session options before booking as formats are not specified here; check the therapist's profile for the latest information.
How are sessions paid for?
Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time; fees vary with location.
What are the first steps to begin working together?
Click the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.