About Kimberly
Dr. Kimberly Yazell is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience in mental health care. She brings a practical, straightforward style to sessions and aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, and ADHD-related challenges.
Her approach is collaborative and focused on real-life steps clients can use between meetings. She draws on evidence-based methods to guide sessions in clear, doable ways. That can mean breaking problems into smaller pieces, practicing new skills during the week, and checking what is working.
Background and approach
Clients can expect a calm, steady presence and attention to immediate concerns like sleep, anger, or setbacks in recovery. Dr. Yazell has worked across different care settings and with people facing multiple, co-occurring issues.
She pays attention to how life roles, caregiver demands, and health problems affect mood and daily functioning. This helps her tailor conversations to the pressures a person is actually dealing with. Sessions often include practical tools for handling overwhelming feelings and improving daily routines.
She also helps people navigate relationship strains, grief, parenting stress, and career worries. Mindfulness and skills practice are used as part of building coping strategies. People looking to address ADHD symptoms, recurring anxiety, substance use concerns, or life transitions will find a clinician who emphasizes problem-solving and steady progress.
Her style is direct but warm, with an eye toward what can change now and what can be built over time.
How therapeutic approaches and online sessions work together
Dr. Yazell uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep the conversation rooted in each person's goals. That approach focuses on listening carefully and shaping sessions around what matters most to the client, which can help with motivation and clarity.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on approach that breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT is useful for tackling anxiety, depression, sleep troubles, and patterns that maintain stress. Clients learn concrete exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist and client talk about goals and try methods that fit the person's situation and preferences. Adjustments are made as progress and needs become clearer, so care stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people work face-to-face when convenient, phone calls use less bandwidth, chat can be a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy into busy days and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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