About Kimberly
Kimberly Sylla helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, or big life changes. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience. Her manner is warm and nonjudgmental, and she focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Kimberly draws on several therapy methods to match each person’s needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept hard feelings and move toward meaningful goals.
How Kimberly works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy inform her way of working with intense emotions and relationship patterns. Her background includes a Master of Social Work and long experience supporting people with depression, bipolar concerns, ADHD, trauma and substance use issues.
She also has experience with caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, and work or career stress. Those areas often appear alongside mood and anxiety challenges. Sessions are offered in English and conducted from Pennsylvania.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Kimberly works collaboratively to set realistic goals and pace progress according to each person’s situation. She encourages straightforward conversations and concrete tools people can practice between sessions.
If someone wants steady support for coping, rebuilding after loss, or managing anger and relationships, Kimberly focuses on attainable steps and steady progress.
Kimberly lists 8 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without letting them block actions that matter. It focuses on values and small committed steps toward a meaningful life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, and uses practical exercises to build different habits and reactions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on patterns in close relationships and helps people identify and change emotional responses that cause distance or conflict.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That collaborative decision shapes which methods are used and how sessions are paced.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging makes scheduling easier and helps therapy fit into busy lives. Video sessions are good for in-depth conversation and seeing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier when movement is needed. Live chat or text messaging is useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when a shorter format fits a busy day. These options support ongoing work, skill building, and steady progress.
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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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