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Dr. Kimberley Carder

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Dr. Kimberley Carder

Dr. Kimberley Carder is a Clinical Psychologist working in Hong Kong. She specializes in Child and Family Therapy and is currently taking appointments.

17/07/2025

Know yourself, play your game, live with purpose.

It’s been a whirlwind couple of months opening up a clinic and creating a therapeutic space. It has been beautiful to have all the parts of my professional-self come together and be able to work aligned with my values. I’m not reinventing the wheel of therapy, I’m just adding my personal touch.

There have been insecurities in the past of being “too friendly”, “too nice” and “not professional enough”. I’m thankful for the gift of time that has given me more wisdom and the space to be confident in how I express myself. There’s a quiet confidence that comes with knowing that you’re good at what you do, guided by a purpose of wanting to be better at helping others.

Incredibly thankful to my younger self for the determination she had in making all of this possible. It’s a dream to have my own space and help others.

Forever in service to those wanting to take better care of themselves and learn what’s on the other side of their discomfort - Or anyone who is curious about mental health and wants to have a chat.

08/07/2025

I often hear in therapy about how stressed people feel about a situation, or their nervousness about relationship dynamics. Sometimes the situation is impending and other times it’s a relationship in progress. The stress is about things not going well, the situation needs to be resolved or another outcome needs to be created.

Stress does NOT correlate to outcome. Much of the time when we look back (hindsight is a gift baby), we wish we hadn’t worried as much as we had. Or had taken action sooner.

Stress tells us that we care about something, yes. Situations and circumstances change, what we always have as a constant is ourselves. So despite the stress, how do you continue to act in accordance with your values, goals and dreams? How do you take care of your present and future self knowing that this is a situation causing emotional stress? How do you action it?

08/06/2025

Self-care isn’t just trips to the space or a weekend in Thailand. It’s the choices we make in the difficult moments. It’s the planning we do ahead of time so our future self thanks us. It’s having your back when times feel tough.

You’re allowed to put yourself first. You can’t give from an empty cup. Fill it up.

04/06/2025

It’s hard not to be overwhelmed in today’s modern world of a surplus of choice, constant notifications and for many of us the chance to just get on a plane and be anywhere if we so choose.

Stillness and mental freedom are things we need to work for and protect, they’re counter to our current culture. But we owe it to ourselves, our community and our children to role model more of the behaviours we want to see in the world. We can best do that when we take good care of ourselves.

Taking care of ourselves looks different as we age, as the world changes. But the results are the same. It puts us in the best place to make good choices. Self care can be saying no, leaving a room, turning off your phone for a set time, going on that trip, not going on that trip, making financial sacrifices that create more time for other values to show up more in your week.

Or just taking a big deep breath and giving yourself a few seconds before your next reaction.

22/05/2025

Last week in session, one of my clients off handedly said “I decided to give myself some grace”. That statement gave me pause, what a reminder. At any given time, we have the ability to gift ourselves some grace. Especially when we are used to being so hard on ourselves, holding ourselves to such high standards, being overly critical.

Remembering that that gift is always in our back-pocket, some moments easier to reach than others but it is always there, feels like a superpower.

I feel so grateful to be able to continually learn from everyone who comes into my therapy room. As a therapist I have a clinical skill set, but each person is the expert on themselves and together we get to go to depths together with expertise and skill and unpack from there.

Thank you to this special person for reminding me to give myself some grace.

07/05/2025

Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day.

I feel so conflicted when people ask me, “did you have post-natal depression?” Because I know I didn’t fulfil the whole criteria for diagnosis, but it was far from sunshine and butterflies.

The paradoxes of life never felt so apparent, it was the most magical of times in one of the darkest chapters of my life. As the pillars of my identity, work, relationships were shattered and rebuilt, in tandem learning who my new baby was and what she needed. Learning the term Matresence and what was happening to me and my life. On sleep deprivation. Recovering from birth.

I know I’m not alone in being blindsided by this experience. Where was my mental health training when I needed it? How had we not covered this in depth, especially since everyone comes from a mother?! I was coming up short, so I turned to research and dug deep into what was already out there. Like a lot of things with women’s health, not enough.

Which is why I have become so passionate about addressing post-partum mental health. It is far more complex and nuanced than a binary matter of PPD/PMAD (post-partum depression/perinatal mood and anxiety disorder) or not. There are many shades and stories of postpartum.

It has been fulfilling to work with mothers in therapy and hear them say “I felt so alone” and to acknowledge they are so far from that place now emotionally.

As a social species, when we share stories, communicate honestly with one another, we are feeding a biological need of community and support. Stigma can only be broken once we turn in to one another.

04/03/2025

Hello Hong Kong, we have arrived. Link in the bio. Look forward to supporting you all, in-person.

Mental health matters and prevention is always greater than cure. Talk therapy helps.

21/02/2025

I realise that I haven’t formally introduced myself in a while and in the ever changing landscape of the internet, I’ve learned it’s good to check in once in awhile!

I didn’t realise how long I’ve been working and submerging myself in the world of psychology until I wrote this post and it does feel surreal to write down how long I’ve been working in this field.

I was asked recently, but what exactly do you do? And yes, therapy, but at the forefront of that is education. Teaching people about how our emotions work and the impact that that can have on relational patterns. Teaching people how to find the language for emotions so they can ask for what they need rather than reacting in familiar destructive patterns.

I feel so grateful to do what I do and to be given the backstage pass to people’s lives.

21/11/2024

Grateful to have participated in the Move Inward event last week hosted by two home-grown role models. It’s so lovely to see people who grew up here in Hong Kong give back to the community. The event perfectly combined physical movement with emotional reflection, reminding us all of our mind-body connection.

Events like this are an example of our of the greatest protective barrier to our mental health, connection. Bringing mental health conversations into the public break the stigma which helps us all be free from shame when it comes to the internal battles we face.

Thank you for leading by example and and creating such a safe space. We will all feel the ripple effect.

18/11/2024

There is a lot of negative language around the capabilities of new mothers. But when we look at the (limited) science on the matter, there is no evidence to support the myth of “mum brain” 🧠 .

Mother’s brains are taking on an increased load of responsibility on limited (if any!) sleep as they learn an new maternal landscape on top of all the other roles they have.

30/10/2024

Excited to re-launch this program next week at

- discussing all things Matresence
- providing a safe space for mama’s and their little ones - myths and mastery in the postpartum period
- mental health coping skills for mum-guilt and the depressive symptoms that are a part of the package in becoming a mother

Sign up link in the bio!

21/10/2024

Speaking last week with .mini.megatron, I got to learn about the current landscape of tech platforms in the mental health arena. Our relationship with technology is only deepening as it makes life more efficient and connected, I know this personally as I think about how much more time I spend on screens compared to five years ago. As we are all spending more and more time online and the age at which people are interacting with screens is getting younger and younger, it is crucial for all of us to understand the impact screens and tech have on mental health. The creators of tech platforms need to deeply considering the user experience and well-being.

Having recently finished ‘The Anxious Generation’ by - , the importance of policy and support for young people and their relationships with technology feels ever more alarming. Working with young people in therapy I frequently see first hand the anxieties and mental health troubles that teens struggle with, in particular with social media. I feel lucky to have grown up in a generation where my sense of self (and insecurities) could develop without an identity growing online in tandem, with the whole world watching. We have yet to see the full impact of growing up online, but as Jonathan Haidt’s research has found so far there is less of a participation in ‘real-world’ life, more fear in in-person interactions. So it is interesting to think of what the workplace and schools will look like in 15 years time.

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Central District

Opening Hours

Tuesday	09:00 - 18:00
Wednesday	09:00 - 18:00
Thursday	09:00 - 18:00
Friday	09:00 - 18:00
Saturday	09:00 - 17:00

Telephone

+85225214668

Website

http://www.drkimberleycarder.com/

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