Kimberly Quintero, LPC

Kimberly Quintero is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Oklahoma with 30 years of experience. She draws on a long career in schools, university counseling, and outpatient settings to help clients facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and life changes. Kim emphasizes a warm, interactive style and believes clients already have many answers inside them. She guides people to discover those answers while offering practical tools to try between sessions.

Her background includes work as an elementary school counselor and in university student counseling centers. That history gives her a broad view of how problems show up across life stages and settings. Over three decades she has supported people coping with parenting challenges, grief, relationship strains, anger, and career concerns.

Kim uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma-related processing. In sessions she keeps language direct and practical so people can use new skills right away. She often suggests short exercises or practice tasks between meetings to reinforce progress.

Her approach is collaborative and goal-oriented. Kim aims to build a supportive connection and then work toward clear, manageable steps. She also balances empathy with structure so people leave sessions with something they can try.

Outside of work she values family time and enjoys lake and ocean outings. That personal perspective informs a down-to-earth style that many find approachable and steady.

How CBT and EMDR work for online therapy

Kim uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people notice and change thought patterns and behaviors that keep them stuck. CBT focuses on practical strategies and homework exercises that can be practiced between sessions to create measurable change.

She also offers Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for processing distress tied to traumatic memories. EMDR uses structured sets of attention and memory work to reduce the intensity of past events and the reactions they trigger.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences, then recommend or combine methods that fit. Clients and the therapist adjust the plan as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face work and EMDR sessions when appropriate, phone sessions can be quicker or use less bandwidth, and chat or text can suit brief check-ins or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between meetings.