Who we are

Little Love Warriors is a woman-owned team of licensed clinical psychologists with 40 years of combined clinical and research experience helping children and parents thrive in the face of adversity. We are committed to understanding the needs of children and parents throughout Virginia. Our philosophy and approach are based on the science of secure child-parent relationships.

We help families and the communities they live, play, and work in by promoting healthy and secure relationships.

We are committed to empowering parents to be their healthiest so they can feel their best raising resilient little love warriors.

Our team


  • Founder & Clinical Director

    Dr. Gilbert is a child and family clinical psychologist, teacher, and clinician-researcher. She has expertise in the areas of attachment, parenting, child-parent interactions, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

    The idea behind Little Love Warriors was inspired by both motherhood and her clinical work at the Mary D. Ainsworth Child-Parent Attachment Clinic. There, she developed expertise providing evidence-based evaluations and intervention planning for children and caregivers experiencing disruptions in care due to parental separation, divorce, abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption.

    Dr. Gilbert has 20 years of evaluation expertise combining traditional clinical procedures with a range of procedures developed in the basic science research areas of child-parent attachment, adult attachment, child and adult trauma, and parent-child relationship research.

    In addition to Little Love Warriors, Dr. Gilbert is a professor and clinician-researcher of Family Medicine and Pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).

    She is mom to a fierce 10-year old little love warrior and this practice is dedicated to her.

  • Dr. Kimball is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and National Register Health Service Psychologist. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Miami University, and both her Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Clinical Psychology from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she was trained by Dr. Patricia Resick, the developer of Cognitive Processing Therapy. Dr. Kimball has over 20 years of experience specializing in the assessment and treatment of the effects of psychological trauma. She has provided training and supervision for mental health professionals, and consultation in trauma-informed care for families and systems of care throughout her career. Dr. Kimball was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry with the VCU Health System at the Virginia Treatment Center for Children for 16 years before launching a psychological assessment clinic for Dominion Care in 2021. Currently, in addition to her work with Little Love Warriors, Dr. Kimball provides therapy and psychological evaluation services at Richmond Creative Counseling. She is mom to a kind and brilliant 21-year-old son who will always be her little love warrior.