About Kimber
Kimber Brokaw is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 16 years of clinical experience to her practice in Illinois. She uses straightforward language and practical methods to help people who feel stuck. Kimber writes plainly and guides clients toward clearer choices and healthier habits.
She focuses on common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. She also helps with workplace strain, caregiver stress, codependency, and issues around guilt and forgiveness.
Background and approach
Kimber pays attention to intimacy-related concerns, anger, and life transitions so people can find steadier footing. Her approach blends a few different methods to match each person's needs. Cognitive behavioral tools help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Narrative work looks at the stories people tell about themselves and offers new perspectives. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas and solution-focused techniques to spot patterns and set practical goals. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth.
Kimber offers exercises that move beyond talk so clients can test new ways of coping. She helps people see how old wounds influence current choices and then try small, manageable steps toward change. Kimber aims to help people discover what matters most to them and take clear steps toward those values.
Her style is warm, direct, and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on skills people can use between sessions.
How Kimber’s approaches translate to online care
Kimber commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices in online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be practiced between sessions using simple exercises. Mindfulness Therapy teaches grounding and awareness skills to manage anxiety and stress in the moment, useful for coping with daily pressure.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kimber collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts plans as needs evolve. Sessions are a team effort to test tools and pick what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexible options. Video is good for in-depth conversation and guided exercises, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can be used for brief check-ins or when scheduling makes shorter contacts easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Iowa, Illinois
- Languages
- English