About Kimberly
Kimberly Balkcom is a licensed mental health counselor who works from Florida. She holds the credentials LMHC and LPC and brings 13 years of clinical experience to sessions. She focuses on practical steps people can use to manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, ADHD, and similar challenges.
Her approach is straightforward and goal-oriented. Sessions start by identifying what a person most wants to change. Then she and the client set small, doable steps toward those goals.
Background and approach
Kimberly uses everyday language and aims to make therapy feel like a helpful conversation rather than a lecture. She draws on several therapies to match the moment and need. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns.
Mindfulness techniques teach ways to steady attention and reduce reactivity. Client-centered methods focus on listening and understanding what matters most to the person in the room. Kimberly has worked with people facing trauma, grief, addiction, parenting strain, relationship and intimacy concerns, and career stress.
She also supports those dealing with self-esteem, anger, compassion fatigue, and life transitions. Her background includes many years helping people rebuild routines and coping skills after difficult experiences. People who prefer clear plans and practical tools often find her style useful.
She emphasizes self-reflection and skill practice between sessions. Kimberly aims to help clients make steady progress toward safer, healthier daily functioning.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and following the client's priorities. In practice this means the therapist reflects what matters to the person and helps them set the agenda for sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going and testing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is collaborative. Kimberly will discuss options with each person and tailor techniques to their goals and preferences. Together they decide whether to emphasize skills practice, reflective conversations, or a mix of methods, and that plan can change over time as progress occurs.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations and shared worksheets. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching-style support, or quick coping strategies between scheduled meetings. These options aim to increase flexibility and help people maintain steady work on goals despite a hectic schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia
- Languages
- English
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