About Kimberly
Kimberly Ennis uses practical, evidence-informed approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and relationship strains. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in North Carolina with 15 years of experience. Her style is straightforward and focused on what works in daily life.
She aims to build trust and help people find tools that fit their situation. Kimberly draws on therapies that teach skills for emotion regulation, clearer thinking, and acceptance.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple exercises, breath-based mindfulness, and concrete steps to change unhelpful patterns. She tailors strategies to each person’s needs rather than following one fixed plan. Her background includes a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Social Work from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.
Those academic steps informed a practice that later grew through varied clinical roles over more than a decade. She also notes the importance of considering culture and environment in therapy. Clients can expect a collaborative, strengths-focused approach.
Conversations cover coping techniques, communication skills, and ways to handle strong emotions. When trauma or grief are present, she may use methods that gently address painful memories while teaching safety and grounding skills. Kimberly works with many concerns such as depression, addictions, parenting stress, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and major life changes.
She also supports people dealing with bipolar symptoms, anger, and compassion fatigue. Her aim is to make therapy a practical resource for everyday challenges.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through practical exercises and homework. It often helps with depression, anxiety, and relationship problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions, improving tolerance for distress, and handling conflicts more effectively.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will review goals and preferences with the person and then suggest which methods to try first. That decision is collaborative and may shift as needs change over time.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging give a flexible way to share thoughts between sessions and fit support into busy days. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English