Kimberly Qualls, LMSW, LICSW

Kimberly Qualls is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) and a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) practicing in Mississippi with nine years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, ADHD, addictions, parenting challenges, and codependency related concerns.

She uses a client-centered approach that focuses on strengths and building a working relationship. Sessions emphasize clear goals and practical steps so people can try new ways of coping between meetings. Kimberly also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help notice and change unhelpful thinking, and on mindfulness to practice staying present.

Her background includes leading summer day treatment groups and therapeutic activities aimed at teaching daily living and behavioral skills for children ages 3 to 18. That experience also involved working alongside parents to address behavioral challenges and support functional living skills.

Kimberly has spent time identifying risk and resilience factors across individuals, peer groups, families, schools, and communities. She uses that perspective to plan interventions and build strategies that fit a person’s life and responsibilities.

In sessions she focuses on building rapport, clarifying what someone wants to change, and setting small, achievable steps. People who are living around someone else's drinking, having trouble saying no, or repeatedly putting others first often find this approach practical and grounded.

Therapeutic approaches and online work