- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Kimberly
Kimberly Tomlinson is a licensed mental health counselor with 20 years of experience. She helps people who are stressed, struggling with anxiety or depression, facing relationship strains, or dealing with parenting challenges. She also supports those coping with trauma, addiction, mood disorders, grief, and identity concerns.
Kimberly practices from Florida and speaks English. Her style is direct and warm. She blends clear, practical strategies with careful listening.
Sessions focus on building skills that people can use between meetings and on understanding patterns that keep problems repeating.
Background and approach
Kimberly draws on several therapy approaches to match a client's needs. She uses attachment-based ideas to help people see how early relationships shape current reactions. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors.
Emotion-focused tools help people name and work through strong feelings in the moment. Over two decades she has worked with a wide range of concerns including bipolar disorder, ADHD, OCD, and complex grief. She offers Christian-based counseling when a client wants faith included.
Her experience includes supporting people through health challenges, caregiver stress, adoption and foster issues, and blended family dynamics. Her sessions aim to be practical and goal-oriented. New clients complete a short matching questionnaire, then schedule sessions by availability.
Kimberly emphasizes collaboration - she and the client set priorities together and adjust the approach as progress is made.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Kimberly lists
- 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
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 online care
Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds affect today's relationships and reactions. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and develop new ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Emotion-Focused Therapy helps people identify and process strong feelings so they can respond differently in relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to pick methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean trying different techniques and adjusting plans as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging can work for quick check-ins or ongoing coaching. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives, travel, or different time zones while keeping the focus on practical progress.
Questions people ask about Kimberly
What concerns does Kimberly commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, parenting issues, trauma and abuse, addictions, bipolar disorder, grief, and many related concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is warm and practical. She listens closely and uses clear strategies people can practice between sessions.
What kind of background does she bring?
Kimberly has 20 years of clinical experience supporting people with mood disorders, trauma, ADHD, OCD, caregiver stress, and family transition issues.
What credentials and where is she located?
She is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor - LMHC - and practices from Florida.
Are sessions available in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are accepted.
Which session formats does she offer?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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