About Kimberley
Kimberley Slown is a licensed clinical social worker who draws on 25 years of experience to help people facing trauma, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She works with adolescents and adults, and offers straightforward, compassionate support. Kimberley aims to create a calm space where people can talk without judgment and set clear goals for change.
She often uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to address traumatic memories. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior skills are offered for emotion regulation and managing distress. Kimberley helps with a wide range of concerns, including stress, addictions, ADHD, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and caregiver strain. She also supports people navigating adoption and foster care questions, attachment issues, chronic pain, and body image struggles.
Her work includes attention to LGBT concerns and challenges that come with big life transitions. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Kimberley is licensed in Tennessee as LCSW, TN LCSW 6717, and conducts work in English.
She encourages people to take the first step and complete a short matching questionnaire to find a good fit. From there, scheduling is arranged to match client needs and her availability.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. Online sessions can help people understand attachment habits and try new ways of relating to others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to change thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT works well in video or chat sessions because it uses worksheets, homework, and short behavioral experiments. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) addresses distressing memories by pairing focused recall with bilateral stimulation; parts of EMDR can be adapted to work by video for trauma processing.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to learn their goals and preferences, then recommends one or a blend of methods. This lets sessions focus on what helps most, and it can change as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skill teaching. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text work for quick check-ins, written reflections, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while staying consistent with treatment.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English