About Kimberly
Kimberly Steinmann is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 27 years of clinical experience. She brings a direct, compassionate style and practical tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strains, phobias, and mood challenges. She focuses on real-life problems that get in the way of day-to-day functioning.
That includes parenting stress, work burnout, addiction concerns, and difficulties with intimacy or self-esteem. She also addresses trauma, attachment wounds, and issues related to adoption and foster care.
Background and approach
Kimberly draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, client-centered work, and mindfulness practices. Sessions usually mix skill-building, reflective conversation, and goal-focused planning. The aim is to help people try new responses and notice what works for them.
Her experience spans many settings and complex presentations, including bipolar mood patterns, dissociation, co-occurring conditions, and compassion fatigue in caregivers. She also supports people navigating divorce, blended family challenges, and commitment or communication problems. Kimberly works with adults on issues related to LGBTQ matters, body image, kink and alternative sexual cultures, and abandonment or control concerns.
She offers services from Missouri and provides sessions in English, including to international clients. Her approach is warm, straightforward, and focused on practical change.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then take actions that match their values; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going and teaching practical skills to change those patterns; it works well for phobias, depression, and anxiety. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist reflects and supports a person's own goals and choices.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they will try methods and adjust the plan based on what feels most useful and manageable.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and teachable moments for skill practice. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or visual focus is limited. Live chat and text messaging offer quick check-ins, brief coaching, or a way to process thoughts between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- 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)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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