About Kimberly
Kimberly Tomlinson is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, addiction, grief, and ADHD. She works with individuals and couples, and offers Christian-based counseling when clients request that approach. Kimberly focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day to feel steadier and more able to cope.
Her style is warm and direct. Sessions are client-centered and collaborative.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns in relationships and emotion, then suggests behavioral tools and communication strategies to try between sessions. Kimberly draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help people change unhelpful thinking and habits. She also uses attachment-based and emotionally focused ideas to address how relationships shape feeling and behavior.
Dialectical skills are used when people need concrete tools to manage strong emotions. Over two decades in Florida have given her experience with a wide range of concerns, from trauma and PTSD to intimacy, parenting strain, and caregiver stress. She tailors the pace and focus to each person’s goals and life demands.
Therapy with Kimberly emphasizes small, doable changes. She helps clients set realistic goals, practice new responses, and track progress. Sessions include discussion, skill practice, and planning for applying tools outside the appointment.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Kimberly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. CBT is often useful for anxiety, mood symptoms, and habits such as sleep or eating routines.She also integrates attachment-based and emotionally focused ideas to look at how close relationships influence feeling and behavior. These approaches help clients understand patterns in communication and closeness that affect intimacy and day-to-day stress.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Kimberly works collaboratively to choose methods that match a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. She often combines skills training with relationship-focused work so the plan fits the client’s life.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls let you work face to face when that helps, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits the schedule. Live chat and messaging let clients share updates and practice skills between appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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