Kimberly Balkcom, LMHC, LPC
Practical, collaborative counseling for everyday challenges
Book with Kimberly- Years in practice
- 13
- Credentials
- LMHC, LPC
- Licensed in
- Florida, Georgia
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Relationship issues
About Kimberly
Kimberly Balkcom is a licensed mental health counselor with more than 13 years of clinical experience in Florida. She holds the LMHC credential and the LPC credential and focuses on practical ways to help people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and parenting concerns. Her style is straightforward and goal oriented.
Kimberly uses clear conversations to set goals that fit each person’s needs. She helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts, try small behavior changes, and track progress over time.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize skills that can be used between meetings. Her background includes extensive work with trauma, attachment challenges, and loss. She also supports people facing relationship strains, intimacy issues, grief, and career stress.
Kimberly brings 13 years of experience to these concerns and adapts her approach to each person. Approaches she uses include client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative work. Those methods are used to build self-awareness, reduce overwhelming feelings, and develop concrete coping plans.
The focus is on practical steps rather than abstract theory. People who choose Kimberly often want a collaborative, action-minded process. She aims to help clients find what works for their daily life and parenting challenges.
The work combines listening, simple exercises, and follow-up to keep changes moving forward.
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
Approaches Kimberly lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-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.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects what they say, and helps clarify goals which can make it easier to address parenting stress, grief, or relationship worry.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses practical exercises to test new ways of thinking and behaving, which helps with anxiety, depression, and managing cravings or impulsive reactions.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. It pairs well with CBT tools when someone wants to handle strong emotions more steadily.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Kimberly will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility for many schedules. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face to face, phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text options support brief updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family and work routines while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
Questions people ask about Kimberly
What concerns does Kimberly commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, anger, self-esteem, career strain, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and related life changes.
What is her general approach in sessions?
Sessions are collaborative and goal oriented. She draws on client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative techniques to shape practical steps.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 13 years of experience working with people facing complex trauma, attachment issues, mood disorders, and parenting challenges.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LMHC and LPC credentials and practices in Florida.
Are sessions offered in any languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How is pricing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are involved in getting started?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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