My Path
Kimberly Smith – known to many as K.D. – is a Certified Energy Healer, Reiki Master/Teacher, intuitive guide, and licensed acupuncturist devoted to soul-centered healing. Her work bridges ancient wisdom traditions with subtle-energy medicine, earth-based spirituality, and clinical practice to support deep restoration, spiritual insight, and embodied transformation.
With decades of experience in both clinical, community, and energetic healing environments, K.D. offers a grounded, compassionate presence for those seeking balance, clarity, and reconnection with their inner wisdom - whether in individual sessions or structured therapeutic settings.
Photo Credit: Leonia Wade
How I Work
K.D.'s work is rooted in the understanding that energy is not bound by time or space — and that healing unfolds across energetic and physiological systems. Drawing on her background in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), subtle-energy medicine, and intuitive perception, she meets each person — or group — where they are, with compassion and attuned presence.
K.D.’s work includes intuitive energy transmission, Reiki, sounding and chanting, energetic “golden needles,” and guided insight — as well as structured, nervous system–focused approaches using acupuncture and stillness-based practices.
Whether in individual sessions or group settings, her work supports regulation, stabilization, and a deepening capacity to reconnect with one’s truest self, inherent gifts, and natural way of being. Each experience is guided by what the system is ready to receive and integrate.
Life-Long Connection
K.D.’s spiritual path has been shaped by her lifelong bond with nature, lucid dreaming, and visionary experiences. In 2022, she embarked on a sacred walkabout in Cornwall, England, where she deepened her relationship with land-based wisdom through pilgrimage, local mythology, herbal studies, and shamanic journeying.
This time of listening and communion — with ancient voices, sacred stones, elemental intelligences, and the spirits of place — continues to inform the depth, subtlety, and reverence she brings to her work today.
It is also from this listening that her nature-based and stillness-centered program work continues to emerge.
Training & Credentials
K.D.'s formal training includes a Master’s in Traditional Chinese Medicine (Emperor’s College, California) and a Master of Public Health (BRAC University, James P. Grant School of Public Health, Bangladesh). She has practiced as a licensed Acupuncturist since 2007, working across private practice, community health, and collaborative care environments.
She is also a Certified Energy Healer and Reiki Master/Teacher, integrating subtle-energy awareness with clinically grounded approaches to care.
K.D. is the developer of an emerging therapeutic model, The Quiet Return™, integrating auricular acupuncture, somatic movement, and land-based practices.
She is a member of the Federation of Holistic Therapists (FHT), where she is listed as Kimberly Smith, supporting clients across the UK and Ireland through remote sessions.
Before the Healing Arts
K.D. spent two decades in the creative arts — working in theatre, television, and film production — while her work in the healing arts developed in parallel, each informing the other. She later wove her creative skillset and public health background into humanitarian and global health initiatives with organizations such as American Refugee Committee, BBC Media Action, Médecins Sans Frontières, and the Pan-Africa Acupuncture Project.
This diverse background informs her ability to move fluidly between intuitive, clinical, and programmatic spaces — holding both individual and collective healing processes with sensitivity and depth.
Sacred Work Today
Today, K.D.’s work focuses primarily on remote and distance healing, allowing clients from around the world to receive support without the need for physical presence.
She also crafts ceremonial tools, facilitates ritual work, and continues to develop experiential offerings that weave movement, vibration, imagination, and mystery — inviting participants into deeper remembrance of their own healing capacity.
Alongside this, she is developing two program-based offerings: Stillness Circle™ and The Spiral Path, each reflecting different expressions of her integrative therapeutic work.
~ To Thine Own Self Be True ~
Wm. Shakespeare