About Kimberly
Kimberly Sullivan is a licensed marriage and family therapist with two decades of professional experience in California. She brings practical tools and a results-oriented mindset to sessions. Clients meet a therapist who values clear steps and steady progress.
She uses TEAM CBT methods as part of her work, applying focused exercises to help reduce anxiety, lift depression, and address patterns that keep people stuck. Sessions aim to identify specific thoughts and behaviors, try new responses, and track what changes over time.
Background and approach
Kimberly explains techniques plainly and helps people practice them between meetings. Her background includes extensive continuing education and regular consultation with senior practitioners to refine clinical skills. Kimberly blends that ongoing learning with down-to-earth problem solving.
She also brings life experience from years working with horses and training in martial arts, which inform her emphasis on discipline and steady practice. Kimberly is comfortable addressing a wide range of concerns, including stress, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, addictions, grief, ADHD, and struggles with life transitions.
She also focuses on attachment and abandonment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and impulse control problems. Outside the office she spends time with two rescue dogs in training and continues martial arts practice. That blend of personal and professional interests shapes a therapeutic style that is warm, straightforward, and action-oriented.
Practical approaches and flexible online care
Kimberly uses TEAM CBT methods, which focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. This approach breaks problems into clear steps so clients can try small experiments and measure what changes. It is often used for depression, anxiety, persistent negative thinking, and stuck relationship patterns.She also applies focused problem-solving techniques that help people set concrete goals and practice new skills between sessions. These methods emphasize short, doable actions rather than long, abstract discussions, which can help with mood, impulsivity, and daily functioning.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kimberly will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan based on progress and feedback.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face work when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and coaching-style support possible between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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