About Kimberley
Kimberley Kershaw is a licensed clinical social worker in California with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, worry, low mood, or shifts in their mood. She also supports those struggling with self-esteem, motivation, and managing major life changes.
Kimberley keeps sessions straightforward and personal. She creates a calm space where people can talk about what matters to them without feeling judged. She aims to help clients notice patterns that get in the way and try practical steps that can make day-to-day life easier.
Background and approach
Her work draws on client-centered methods, which means conversations are guided by each person’s needs and goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of coping. These approaches are used together to match what a person wants to change.
Kimberley has supported people through anxiety, panic attacks, bipolar mood shifts, depression, and the stress of relationship change and separation. She pays attention to communication and control issues, and she encourages self-compassion and stronger self-care habits. Sessions are intended to be collaborative.
Clients and Kimberley set aims together, try small changes, and check what’s working. The focus is on steps clients can use outside sessions to feel more steady and confident.
How Kimberley blends client-centered work and CBT online
Kimberley uses client-centered therapy to keep conversations focused on each person's priorities and values. This approach means the session follows what matters most to the person, with the therapist listening, reflecting, and helping clarify goals. It’s useful for people who want space to make sense of feelings and decide what they want to change.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT offers simple experiments and small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, manage low mood, or interrupt panic cycles. It is practical and action-oriented, useful when people want tools to try between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Kimberley will help a person identify what fits their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts methods over time. The process is collaborative, with ongoing check-ins about what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video works well for full conversations, phone can suit faster check-ins or lower bandwidth, and messaging can help with short updates or when daily support is useful. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules from different locations within California.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English