About Kimberly
Kimberly Higgins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, sad, or overwhelmed by big life changes. She works with adults and adolescents, and with couples.
Her approach is practical and steady, aimed at making day-to-day life feel more manageable. Kimberly uses evidence-based techniques to help people learn new coping skills. She focuses on things like relationships, grief, depression, and adjusting to illness or caregiving demands.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens closely, helps set clear goals, and practices skills that can be used between meetings. Her work also addresses concerns such as abandonment, attachment, avoidant personality patterns, body image, and blended family challenges. She supports people coping with cancer, chronic pain, and multiple medical issues.
Communication problems, codependency, and commitment fears are other common topics she helps people sort through. Kimberly favors a holistic stance that considers mind, body, and spirit. She aims to create an empathetic, non-judgmental space where clients can name what feels hard and try new ways of responding.
Sessions are framed around practical next steps and measurable progress. People who come to her can expect clear feedback, skill-building, and encouragement toward greater emotional balance. She helps clients find clarity and practical strategies to move forward when life feels stuck.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Kimberly often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. This approach breaks problems into small steps and teaches skills for managing anxiety, low mood, and stress.She also draws on solution-focused and strength-based techniques that identify what is already working and build on those strengths. These methods are useful when someone wants quick, concrete changes or clearer steps to reach short-term goals.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will ask about goals, life demands, and what has and hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions can be done by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is low, and messaging or live chat can work well for brief check-ins or flexible scheduling. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent despite busy calendars or mobility limits.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English