About Kimber
Kimber Brokaw is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of clinical experience in mental health. She practices as an LCSW and LISW and focuses on helping people get unstuck and find clearer direction in their lives. Kimber speaks plainly and works to make therapy practical and doable for busy people.
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and self-esteem concerns. She also supports people facing relationship strain, intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, anger, and career stress.
How Kimber works
Compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, and workplace struggles are frequent topics in her work. Kimber draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, and Solution-Focused Therapy. She often blends these approaches and uses experiential exercises to shift unhelpful thoughts and habitual reactions.
Sessions aim to help people move from thinking to feeling, and then into clearer action. Her approach centers on understanding how someone is wired and how past wounds affect present choices. She helps people identify values and life goals, then takes small, concrete steps toward those goals.
Kimber describes therapy as a collaborative process built around practical tools and real-life changes. Sessions are offered in English and take place online through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. People who want to begin fill out a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.
Kimber lists 5 ways of working on the entry:
What Kimber works with
The areas below are the ones Kimber selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that meet you where you are
Kimber often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns in their thoughts and behaviors and then try small changes. CBT is helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it links thinking, feelings, and actions in a clear way.She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple awareness skills. Mindfulness helps reduce reactivity, improve focus, and build tolerance for difficult feelings. Narrative Therapy is used to look at the stories people tell about themselves and to find different, more empowering ways to describe life events.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kimber will talk with each person about goals and preferences and together decide which combination of methods fits best. She frames therapy as a collaborative process and invites people to try approaches and adjust as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people work face to face when that is helpful. Phone sessions can be a better option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit support into a busy day and to keep momentum between longer sessions.
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