Kiara Pittman

Kiara Pittman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who helps people coping with life changes, stress, anxiety, and substance use concerns. She also supports clients facing trauma, grief, relationship strain, self-esteem struggles, anger, and mood challenges like depression and bipolar symptoms. Kiara aims to make the first step easier with a warm and welcoming approach.

Kiara brings eight years of clinical experience in clinics, hospitals, outpatient programs, home-based care, and addiction settings. She has spent about five years focused on substance use work for teenagers and adults, and on sexual assault and trauma. Her background includes work with adults, couples, and teenagers, and she pays attention to multicultural preferences when planning care.

In sessions she centers the person - clients set the goals and Kiara offers support and guidance toward those goals. Her style is engaging and open, and she emphasizes practical steps people can try between sessions. Kiara describes her work as collaborative; she listens closely and helps clients make changes at their own pace.

She uses client-centered and solution-focused ideas alongside cognitive behavioral techniques and narrative methods to help clients align thoughts and actions. Mindfulness and motivational approaches also appear in her toolbox when helpful for regulation and motivation.

Having moved frequently as a military child and traveled widely, Kiara highlights adaptability and resilience in her work. That life experience informs how she helps people reframe challenges and build skills to manage change. She invites prospective clients to begin by sharing their goals so they can work together toward them.

How Kiara’s approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting the goals a person brings to sessions. It helps when someone wants guidance that respects their priorities and pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and offers practical tools for changing unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing emotions and improving relationships, and can be helpful when emotions feel intense or overwhelming.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful. From there they decide collaboratively which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Confirm the current session options before booking so you know how meetings are scheduled. Online therapy can make it easier to fit care into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow shorter or more flexible check-ins when needed. It also lets people use techniques like CBT worksheets, mindfulness practice, and behavior tracking between sessions. Ask about session scheduling and how Kiara structures follow-up so timing fits into everyday life.