About Kimberly
Kimberly Tomlinson greets people who are feeling overwhelmed and unsure where to start. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 20 years of experience based in Florida. Kimberly listens without judgment and helps people take the first steps toward change.
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar challenges, trauma and abuse, and relationship struggles. She also works with concerns around addiction, grief, intimacy, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career questions, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Additional focuses include attachment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and communication problems. Her style is practical and person-centered. Sessions often begin with what matters most now, then move to clear goals and simple strategies.
She uses approaches that help people understand emotions, build healthier connections, and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Therapeutic methods Kimberly uses include attachment-based work to strengthen relationships, client-centered listening to follow each person's pace, and cognitive behavioral techniques to shift thinking patterns. She also draws on dialectical skills for emotion regulation and emotionally-focused methods for repairing bonds.
Kimberly offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how relationships shape emotional needs and patterns. Online sessions use conversations and exercises to help people notice connection patterns and try new ways of relating that reduce anxiety and improve closeness.Client-centered therapy centers the person's experience and pacing. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and follows each person's lead so goals emerge naturally during online meetings or messaging exchanges.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors link together. In remote sessions CBT can include short exercises, thought records, and practical behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, and sleep disturbance.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort with different formats. That plan can change over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, coaching between sessions, or spacing out thoughts in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using approaches that target emotions, relationships, and thinking patterns.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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