About Kimberly
Kimberly Soutien is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with five years of clinical experience helping people navigate relationship struggles, trauma, and intimacy concerns. She works with adults facing low self-esteem, depression, and questions about sexual functioning or non-monogamous relationships. Kimberly emphasizes practical steps and clear conversation to help clients move forward.
She centers sessions on the client’s own knowledge of their life. Kimberly treats each person as the expert on their story and looks for strengths to build on.
How Kimberly works
She helps people name what they want to change and takes small, doable steps toward those goals. In session she uses straightforward talk and focused work on patterns that cause distress. Topics often include attachment wounds, codependency, abandonment fears, control issues, and communication problems.
She also addresses guilt, shame, infidelity, and finding meaning or life purpose. Kimberly values collaboration and practical skills. She supports people who want clearer boundaries, healthier intimacy, and better self-love.
Sessions aim to boost confidence and reduce the things that hold someone back. Her practice offers several ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Kimberly guides each person through the first steps and helps them choose the session style that fits their routine.
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.
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Life purpose
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches and how online sessions work
Kimberly draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on relationships and trauma. One common approach concentrates on identifying and changing unhelpful patterns in relationships and communication. This helps people spot recurring behaviors, practice new ways of interacting, and repair intimacy problems.Another approach targets the effects of past abuse or attachment wounds by helping people understand how those experiences shape their feelings and reactions today. Work like this often includes building self-compassion, addressing shame, and developing safer ways to ask for needs to be met.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Kimberly will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust them as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see each other and work more deeply on emotional connection. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a simpler check-in. Live chat or text messaging are useful for shorter updates, skill practice, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try approaches that match each person’s routine.
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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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