About Kimberly
Kimberly Tomlinson helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, depression, bipolar symptoms, and addiction. She also supports concerns like grief, intimacy, eating and sleeping difficulties, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, and ADHD. Kimberly is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and she brings 20 years of experience to her work in Florida.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings.
How Kimberly works
She uses client-centered listening so people feel heard. Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to identify unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors. Kimberly also integrates dialectical behavior strategies for managing strong emotions and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to address connection and closeness issues.
Sessions tend to focus on practical steps and skills people can use between meetings. She can include faith-based perspectives when a client wants that included. Clients can expect a calm, respectful setting where the counselor listens first and suggests small, doable changes.
Sessions aim to reduce immediate distress while building longer-term coping skills. Kimberly draws on two decades of practice to tailor methods to each person’s needs. She offers sessions to people in Florida and accepts international clients in English.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, a person selects the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
Kimberly lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions using this approach can help people understand patterns that affect trust, closeness, and conflict in relationships. Client-centered therapy emphasizes empathetic listening and collaboration; the therapist follows the person's lead and helps them find their own solutions to problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, used in brief practical ways, targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaches coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Kimberly will discuss the options and help decide which methods fit a person's goals, needs, and style. That collaborative process can shift over time as priorities change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth or movement is a concern, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping focus on practical skills and relationship patterns.
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