- Years in practice
- 25
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Parenting issues
About Kimberly
Kimberly Lisle is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 25 years of experience helping parents and caregivers navigate parenting challenges. She focuses on practical strategies for everyday struggles like anxiety, stress, behavior problems, and the strain that comes with adoption or foster care situations. She writes plainly and works directly to find what helps in each family’s day-to-day life.
Her approach is goal oriented and interactive. Sessions mix problem-solving with emotion-focused work to address attachment concerns, trauma, and relationship strain.
Background and approach
She uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to change unhelpful patterns and attachment-based ideas to build stronger parent-child connections. Kimberly has long experience with children and adolescents who face hyperactivity, impulsivity, anxiety, obsessive behaviors, and conduct issues after removal or placement. She also supports people coping with physical trauma and emotional abuse.
That background informs how she helps parents respond to intense behaviors and repair relationships. In sessions she is direct and practical. Parents can expect clear steps, homework when useful, and focused conversations about what to try at home.
She adjusts plans as progress or obstacles appear so you always have a next step. Kimberly practices in Florida and communicates in English. Her work often centers on parenting, attachment issues, and helping caregivers manage emotion, behavior, and the stress that comes with major life changes.
What Kimberly works with
Everything Kimberly lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Kimberly helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Family problems
- Hoarding
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
Approaches Kimberly lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How attachment work and CBT translate to online parenting support
Attachment-based work looks at how caregivers and children connect. It focuses on understanding patterns of closeness and distance and on building more dependable responses in everyday moments. This approach often helps with attachment issues, adoption and foster care transitions, and repairing trust after trauma.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses clear experiments and homework to change routines that keep problems going. CBT is useful for anxiety, panic, obsessive behaviors, and upsetting parenting patterns.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with you about your goals, try different techniques, and adjust plans together. That collaborative process helps match methods to what actually fits your family’s life and schedule.
Online work makes it easier to fit therapy into busy days. Video calls let you role-play conversations and show home routines. Phone sessions can be a shorter check-in when time is tight. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief coaching, quick feedback, or tracking progress between sessions. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on practical tools you can use right away.
Questions people ask about Kimberly
What parenting concerns does she address?
She helps with parenting challenges tied to stress, anxiety, behavior problems, adoption and foster care issues, and attachment difficulties.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is direct, goal oriented, and interactive. Sessions focus on concrete steps parents can try between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
She has 25 years of clinical experience working with caregivers, children, and adolescents in settings that involve attachment and trauma-related concerns.
What credentials and region apply to her practice?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, and practices in Florida.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats can be used?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different scheduling needs.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin the process?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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