About Kimberly
Dr. Kimberly Kerksiek is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 18 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship difficulties. She supports people facing trauma, grief, intimacy-related issues, LGBT concerns, and major life changes.
Dr. Kerksiek aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable for worried parents and adults seeking change. Her style is collaborative and client-centered.
Sessions focus on what the person wants to address now.
How Kimberly works
She listens closely, helps people name what matters, and works with them to set realistic steps forward. Dr. Kerksiek uses a mix of practical methods.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is used for processing trauma and distressing memories. The Gottman Method is employed for relationship work, and mindfulness practices are woven into many sessions to build calm and focus.
She has worked in independent practice and community settings across Texas. That background gives experience with a wide range of concerns including eating and body image issues, parenting and caregiver stress, divorce and separation, substance use, and compassion fatigue. Her approach adapts to each person's situation rather than following a single route.
People who choose her can expect clear goals, step-by-step plans, and steady support as they move through change. Dr. Kerksiek encourages active collaboration so clients leave sessions with practical skills they can use between meetings.
Kimberly lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Kimberly works with
The areas below are the ones Kimberly selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- 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
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
How key approaches guide online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's priorities and works by listening carefully, reflecting what matters, and building goals together. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort feelings, make decisions, or handle stressful life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT sessions often include practical exercises and short between-session tasks to change unhelpful patterns related to anxiety, depression, or behavior concerns.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that helps process distressing memories and reduce their emotional impact. In remote sessions this can involve guided bilateral stimulation and structured processing tailored to the client's pace.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Plans can change over time as progress is reviewed and new concerns arise.
Online therapy here offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people have a full session face to face, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing communication between appointments. Those options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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