About Kimberly
Kimberly Winkel is a licensed clinical social worker with 37 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and ADHD. She uses straightforward talk and practical steps to help people manage overwhelming days. Her style is warm and respectful, and she pays attention to cultural and life context when listening.
Kimberly draws on client-centered work to keep conversations focused on each person's goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thinking and to build new habits.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are offered when calmer attention and stress reduction are helpful. She takes a solution-focused stance for many concerns, helping people identify small, realistic changes that make a difference quickly. For clients with a trauma history, trauma-focused methods are used to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.
Sessions move at a pace set by the person in therapy. Kimberly has worked across many settings over her career and brings experience with multicultural concerns, immigration issues, and complex mood and trauma-related problems. She also supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, parenting stress, career transitions, and long-standing family-of-origin patterns.
Her approach aims to be practical and human. People can expect clear goals, simple tools to practice between sessions, and regular check-ins on what is or isn't working. The focus stays on what matters most to each person as they work toward steadier routines and better day-to-day functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and online care fit
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's priorities so sessions reflect what matters most to them. This approach is helpful when someone wants a supportive space to sort out feelings and make decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and teaches practical skills to change patterns that contribute to anxiety, low mood, or difficulty with daily routines.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose or combine methods based on goals, symptoms, and preferences. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting plans over time so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises that benefit from seeing one another. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain continuity when life or location changes.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- Indiana, Florida
- Languages
- English
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