About Kimberly
Kimberly Washington is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 21 years of experience helping people heal from painful life events. She focuses on restoring hope after loss, betrayal, addiction, and periods of deep stress. Her work centers on honest conversation and practical steps forward.
She guides people through problems such as drug and alcohol addiction, grief, infidelity, jealousy, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. She also supports those coping with anger, low self-esteem, career strain, compassion fatigue, and major life changes.
How Kimberly works
Sessions aim to identify patterns that keep problems repeating and to build clearer choices. Kimberly combines client-centered listening with approaches that address thoughts, stories, and early life influences. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Narrative Therapy to reframe unhelpful beliefs and rewrite painful stories.
Psychodynamic ideas help uncover long-standing patterns that affect current relationships. Her practice includes concrete tools for managing cravings, reducing shame, and repairing trust after betrayal. She also offers short-term, solution-focused work for specific problems and goals.
Conversations move between understanding past hurt and taking small steps that improve daily life. Kimberly trained in Clinical Social Work at the University of Chicago and holds the LCSW credential. She has worked in substance abuse treatment, transitional living programs, child welfare, and independent practice.
Her style is direct, compassionate, and aimed at helping people get unstuck.
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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.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Self esteem
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online healing
Kimberly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for managing cravings, reducing anxiety, and breaking patterns that fuel addiction and low self-esteem. Narrative Therapy is also part of her work and focuses on the stories people tell about themselves. Rewriting those stories can reduce shame and open paths to healthier relationships and clearer identity.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Kimberly discusses goals and preferences in early sessions and adjusts methods as needed. She works collaboratively to combine listening, skill-building, and short-term strategies so therapy fits each person's situation.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, while phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging helps with brief check-ins, ongoing encouragement, or when typing feels more comfortable than speaking. These options let people fit therapy into workdays, caregiving routines, or other busy lives.
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