The Counselor Who Turns Broken Stories Into Redemption – Exclusive Interview With Kimberlee Herman

Kimberlee Herman is a Licensed Clinical Pastoral Counselor, best-selling author, national radio co-host for the Wyatt Matters show, and creator and host of the Promise Hill Podcast, where fiction meets healing. As Kimberlee puts it, “It’s just different here.”

She is best known for helping people get unstuck in their lives, emotions, and spiritual walk using a combination of evidence-based psychological tools, which she learned when she was a secular therapist, and Spirit-led inner healing through prayer.

Now she is redefining counseling in the digital age with a unique fusion of story, support, and sacred space.

Kimberlee Herman, Clinical Pastoral Counselor

Tell us a bit about yourself.

I’ve never been one to fit neatly into a box. And I like it that way.

I began as a licensed therapist 22 years ago, and over time, my path weaved and turned, leading me to become a licensed clinical pastoral counselor about 10 years ago. My life’s been a winding road filled with unexpected opportunities, a few regrettable detours, and heartbreaks that cracked me wide open.

But through it all, I’ve experienced deep healing and have had the privilege of walking alongside others as they step into their own transformations.

My faith journey gives me a perspective not many have. I’ve walked through the New Age and found my way home as a Christ-follower. It changed everything.

The biggest part of my life is my husband and our daughter. We have been through many hard seasons, which have stretched and grown us as a family.

Like most people, my life is constantly evolving. My one-on-one counseling practice is transforming into podcasting and books to reach more people and teach them about emotional and spiritual healing. There will be group coaching down the road for those who want more hands-on guidance as well.

What are you best known for?

I’m best known for helping people get emotionally and spiritually unstuck, not just to cope, but to actually heal. My work blends Spirit-filled Christian counseling and working with fractured soul parts, combined with evidence-based tools like CBT and Brainspotting, so we’re not just managing symptoms, we’re going straight to the root.

Sometimes that means healing the parts stuck in old wounds. Other times, it’s about clearing out lies that have shaped how you see God, others, and yourself. It can also mean breaking off the emotional connection to an event, a belief, or even a person.

Here’s what I’ve seen again and again: when Jesus speaks into those festering places, fear breaks, shame lifts, and real connection begins.

This is the kind of healing that changes everything.

You have a best-selling book. Tell us why it’s helpful.

Many women would tell me they couldn’t relate to the Bible. I wanted to change that.

Women of the Bible offers more than just facts about 12 women; it invites you to step into their stories. As you read it, you’ll likely find yourself in their struggles, heartbreak, doubts, and decisions.

Some, like Mary, Ruth, and Deborah, stand out as women of deep character who faced hardship with courage, examples we can aspire to. Others simply reflect a beautiful truth: even when we feel unworthy, God still calls us. He doesn’t turn us away. He welcomes, guides, and works with us right where we are.

What inspired you to move from counseling to story podcasting?

I truly love what I do, and I hope to keep counseling for years to come. Over the past 22 years, I’ve noticed some common threads in people’s journeys with faith, things like church hurt, false beliefs, relationship pain, and simply not knowing where to begin.

Stories are a powerful tool to reach our souls. They can be an intersection of truth and support.

My purpose now is to reach beyond my office walls to shine light into dark corners, offer practical tools, and help people find clarity and connection with God in a way that is both accessible and meaningful.

What question do you wish people would ask you, but they never do?

I absolutely love the work that I do. It's spiritual, connecting, deep, healing, and a little weird. I wish people would ask me more about that.

I work with fractured soul parts in my counseling practice. I also write books and create stories. I use AI voices and sound effects for my podcast. It might sound strange, but this is the work I believe I was born to do, whether it’s helping fractured hearts or fractured characters, I live for the redemption story.

I'm going to bite. What’s a fractured soul part?

I'm so glad you asked! Let me give you a short backstory first. A handful of years ago, I was in prayer, and I was shown how to work with a part of me in a memory. That particular memory I had visited many times before, but this time, I was directed to work within the memory, not just look at it. God healed the pain that part of me was carrying and brought her back into wholeness with me.

I had no idea what a part was at that time. It was the weirdest thing and the most healing. I felt whole and peaceful after that experience. That moment changed my entire practice and made the most sense to me as far as how healing can occur for me and my clients.

“Parts” are the pieces of us that get stuck in certain memories, usually the painful ones. They can also be aspects of our personality that create challenges, often out of emotional wounds or generational inheritances. They can hold fear, sadness, or even try to protect us in ways that no longer help. I’ve had clients gripped by fear, and once we were shown the memory of where it all started, Jesus met them there, did the healing work, and the fear finally lifted. Every session looks different, but the goal is always the same: healing and lasting change.

Since then, I have studied “parts” from various trainings, but the way God showed me is still the way I use it today with my clients.

For readers seeking emotional healing and interested in exploring “parts” work, where do they begin?

If you’ve been in counseling but feel like you’re not making much headway, or if you’re just starting and want to work through some deeper wounds, consider finding a therapist trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS). It’s a gentle and powerful approach that helps you understand and heal the different “parts” of yourself.

If you’d prefer to work with someone who isn’t a licensed therapist but still uses a similar parts-based method, you might want to explore Heart-Sync. It can be a meaningful path toward healing with a more ministry-based approach.

What’s something you’ve unlearned that changed everything?

I hope my answer can help everyone reading this. Early in my career, I was a social worker. I had a huge heart and little boundaries, because that's what you do as a helper, right? Ha! I’d take home every client’s struggle, lose sleep over their situations, and constantly feel the pressure to fix it all. I was completely stressed out.

Then one day, a wise mentor told me something that stuck: “Everyone has their journey, and it’s not up to you to carry theirs.”

She reminded me that I could walk alongside people, offer support, give them resources, but their story isn’t mine to live. I have my own life to live. And if I didn’t learn to leave it at work, I was going to burn out fast.

So I tried it. And let me tell you, it was hard at first, and I felt guilty, but my clients survived, and things still worked out for them. It soon became a breath of fresh air. Total freedom.

So if that sounds like you, dear reader, if you're constantly taking on everyone else’s stuff, feeling like it’s your job to fix or rescue, listen up: it’s not.

You can show up for people without sacrificing your peace. People need to respect your time, your energy, and your heart. But they’ll only do that if you do first.

Set the boundary and protect your peace.

Because you’re worth it.

Thank you for joining us in this interview, Kimberlee.

Thanks so much for having me. It’s truly been a joy. To all you wonderful readers: keep going. There’s more spark in you than you realize and more healing available than you’ve been told.

Come join us at Promise Hill. Whether you’re stuck, searching, or simply need a story to soften your heart, there’s a seat for you here, and I have saved it just for you. Visit the podcast, and join me on the path where story meets healing.

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