About Kimberly
Kimberly Sylla is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and ADHD. She offers a warm, non-judgmental approach and focuses on each person’s strengths. Kimberly aims to meet people where they are and build trusting working relationships.
She uses practical tools from cognitive-behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people manage emotions and change unhelpful patterns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas and client-centered methods also shape her work, so sessions often combine skills practice with values-based goals.
Background and approach
Kimberly trained at Temple University, earning a Master of Social Work, and earlier completed a bachelor’s degree in psychology at La Salle University. She also holds a certification in advanced drug and alcohol counseling and has spent many years supporting people with substance use concerns alongside mood and trauma-related issues.
Her background includes helping people cope with grief, trauma and abuse, relationship struggles, career stress, chronic illness, and caregiving burdens. She draws on a range of approaches so therapy fits the problem and the person rather than forcing a single method. Sessions focus on clear goals, real-life strategies, and steady progress at a comfortable pace.
Outside of work she enjoys reading, travel, and time with her son, and she brings that human perspective into the therapeutic relationship.
Therapeutic approaches and online delivery
Kimberly often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors through practical exercises and skill-building. CBT is helpful for anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, and coping with life changes.She also draws from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills when strong emotions cause repeated problems. DBT-style skills work can help with anger, relationship stress, and managing intense feelings.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative step. Kimberly partners with each person to choose which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time based on what is helpful and what a client wants to focus on.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills demonstrations, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option, and messaging or live chat work well for brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between calls. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules while keeping the focus on practical strategies and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Utah, Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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