About Kimberly
Kimberly Merolla-Brito is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 15 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, relationship strain, and parenting challenges. She also supports those coping with trauma, sleep and eating problems, ADHD, and life transitions.
Her style is warm and interactive. She starts where people are and works together to set clear goals. Sessions are practical and focused on what will make daily life easier.
How Kimberly works
Kim uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. Client-centered work focuses on listening and building trust.
Mindfulness and motivational techniques are added when helpful to increase awareness and momentum. She has worked in varied clinical settings over the past 15 years and brings that range to her sessions in Rhode Island. The LICSW credential indicates advanced social work training and clinical practice experience.
Kim offers flexible session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules appointments according to therapist availability.
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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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Rhode Island |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on listening and building trust so people feel heard and able to set their own goals. This approach helps with relationship concerns, self-esteem, and deciding what change looks like.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify thought patterns that feed anxiety or depression and teaches concrete steps to change behaviors. CBT is useful for stress, mood issues, and some sleep or eating problems.
Mindfulness Therapy trains simple awareness skills to reduce reactivity and improve coping. It is often helpful for anxiety, stress, and trauma-related symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through choices, try methods that fit the person's goals, and adjust approaches based on how well they are helping. That collaborative process helps shape a personalized plan.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls suit deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets people check in quickly, and text messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let people fit therapy into a busy life.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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