Kim Ray, MD, LCSW-C, LICSW

Kim Ray is a licensed clinician based in Maryland who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She aims to create a calm, honest space where clients can talk through immediate problems and build practical coping skills. Kim emphasizes clear steps and compassionate support during hard moments.

Kim holds an MD and is a Licensed Certified Social Worker in Maryland as well as a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in DC. Her background includes work with grief, self-esteem struggles, parenting concerns, relationship issues, and addictions. She also addresses compassion fatigue and bipolar-related concerns.

Her approach blends structured methods and exploratory work. Kim uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify patterns that keep problems stuck, and she pairs that with motivational interviewing to encourage small changes. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at deeper patterns that repeat in relationships.

Sessions may include short-term goal setting, practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking, and discussion of past events that shape current behavior. For people dealing with trauma, she incorporates trauma-focused strategies alongside coping skills to manage symptoms in daily life.

Kim has five years of documented experience in the therapist role and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions operate through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, the site’s Start Therapy button is used to complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule appointments according to therapist availability.

How Kim’s approaches work online

Kim commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors; CBT focuses on skills and exercises that can be practiced between sessions to reduce anxiety and depression. She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who feel stuck - that approach helps clarify personal goals and build small, achievable steps toward change. For deeper patterns, she may draw on Psychodynamic Therapy to look at how past experiences influence current reactions and relationships.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kim will work with the client to match techniques to their goals and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made. Clients and the therapist decide together whether to focus on short-term symptom relief, behavior change, or longer-term insight work.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can fit quick check-ins or brief reflections between appointments. This range of formats helps people fit therapy into busy schedules and keeps momentum between meetings.