About Kimberly
Dr. Kimberly Phillips uses practical, talk-based therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and depression. She is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas - LCSW - and brings eleven years of professional experience to sessions.
Her approach aims to make the first steps toward change feel clear and doable. In sessions she focuses on creating a calm space to talk through what feels most urgent. Conversations are straightforward and goal-oriented.
Background and approach
She helps people break problems into small steps and notice what gets in the way of progress. Dr. Phillips draws on several evidence-informed approaches to tailor work to each person.
She often mixes thinking-focused strategies that reframe unhelpful patterns with deeper conversations about meaning and motivation. This blend supports both immediate coping and longer-term shifts in outlook. She also addresses life transitions, career concerns, relationship issues, compassion fatigue, and trauma-related struggles.
Additional areas of attention include aging and geriatric issues, hospice and end-of-life counseling, immigration challenges, and first responder stress. Sessions are offered in English and can happen by video, phone, live chat, or text. People who want to begin can use the site's Start Therapy button to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
Approach and online session options
Dr. Phillips frequently uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing in online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Motivational Interviewing focuses on building motivation and finding personal reasons to change, which is useful for career shifts, habit change, or moving through grief.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will work together with each person to decide which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and comfort. That collaborative planning means methods can change over time if something isn’t working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow fuller conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier on the go, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief reflections between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Hearing impaired
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English