About Kimberly
Kimberly Tomlinson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She focuses on common and complex concerns such as anxiety, depression, phobias, trauma, and relationship struggles. Her tone is direct and compassionate, aimed at people who are feeling overwhelmed and unsure where to begin.
She uses clear, practical methods in sessions. Conversations focus on what currently feels hard and what small steps might help. She offers Christian-based counseling when requested and adapts her approach to each person’s values and goals.
Background and approach
With 20 years of experience, Kimberly has worked with many issues across the mood and behavior spectrum, including bipolar disorder, addictions, obsessive tendencies, and ADHD. She also supports people coping with grief, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and life transitions. Expect straightforward talk and tools you can try between sessions.
Kimberly draws on several approaches to shape treatment. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Attachment-based and emotionally-focused methods guide work on closeness, trust, and communication.
Dialectical skills are used when emotional regulation feels out of reach. Sessions are offered online in English, and she accepts international clients. Appointment formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
The subscription-based scheduling can be canceled at any time and varies by location and therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Kimberly often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT breaks problems into small parts and gives clear exercises to practice, which can be done between sessions to reduce anxiety or phobic avoidance.She also draws on attachment-based and emotionally-focused methods to address relationship patterns and closeness issues. These approaches focus on understanding how past connections shape current reactions and on building more effective ways to ask for support and share feelings.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kimberly will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, try methods that fit those needs, and adjust plans based on what helps. Clients are encouraged to give feedback so sessions stay practical and relevant.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and demonstrations. Phone can be a good low-bandwidth alternative. Live chat and text work well for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when someone needs to fit therapy into a busy day. These formats make scheduling more flexible and allow people in different places to work with licensed professionals.
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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
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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