Kimberly Drew, MA, LPC

Originally from Seattle, Washington

ABOUT

Kimberly Drew is a business owner, EMDR therapist, and clinical supervisor in the State of Oregon. Serving Central Oregon since 2015.

Kimberly first worked with teen girls on a ranch in WY that was faith-based, but there were serious problems in how they used religion in the therapeutic space. It was such an intense experience at 23 years old, Kimberly needed to gain more training in counseling and ethics, and was accepted into Seattle University’s School of Theology studying clinical psychology to become a spiritually integrated counselor.

Kimberly began working in private practice in Bend in 2015, creating a psychospiritual brand in the clinical counseling structure. Kimberly worked at the nonprofit WaterCup Counseling in Redmond as a Christian counselor for 4 years. Seeing women’s spiritual role in their churches and helping them process childhood trauma in order to serve their family and church more effectively, was deeply inspiring.

Since grad school, Kimberly has always framed therapy as a psycho-spiritual endeavor, grounded in clinical frameworks, listening deeply to spirit, using breath, intuition, and creativity. On a clinical level, Kimberly committed early in her career to study cutting edge, evidence-based modalities that are proven to be effective, and to not lose heart, get jaded, or burned.

Over the years, Kimberly’s niche has formed into facilitating the processing of trauma through EMDR, DBR, KAP and IFS. In her 15 years experience working in mental health, real, lasting life changes always happen when old trauma wounds, sometimes 20+ years old, are cleared out. There is an art in approaching the presenting issue using each intervention wisely and with strong rapport. Being from a family of multigenerational engineers and software developers, the brain is very similar to a computer, and Kimberly hones her ability to map out the solution. Following the correct order of operations helps achieve practical results while maintaining stability throughout the process.

Currently, Kimberly enjoys working with spiritual women, community leaders, business owners, and working and/or single moms- people who get burned out. Most clients who step into the office, have childhood trauma in which spiritual gifts have already transformed into strength, yet the trauma is not totally cleared and there is still substantial burdens and negative emotional/somatic activation mixed in. These brain pathways are often so deep they are immune to traditional talk therapy and more advanced interventions are needed.

Kimberly has gone through all of these modalities on her own spiritual path, including years of EMDR therapy and consultation with trained EMDR specialists, DBR processing, medically administered KAP sessions and sacred medicine circles with experienced facilitators, Internal Family Systems with a Level III IFS practitioner, Reiki and various somatic body work (I do not specialize in energy healing or body work). Kimberly has a wide network of experienced teachers and healers to keep her grounded and healthy so she can serve with objectivity.

Kimberly really loves Central Oregon, the creative culture, the landscape, and happy to call Bend home. She is grateful and honored to serve in this capacity.