About Kimberly
Kimberly Nixon is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker practicing in Florida with 20 years of experience. She helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, loss, mood changes, or difficulties in relationships and parenting. Her style is calm and practical, focused on meeting you where you are and helping you take manageable steps forward.
Kimberly uses a strengths-based approach. She will listen first, then work with you to set clear goals.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize practical tools you can try between meetings. She also helps people build insight about patterns that keep them stuck. In sessions she draws on several approaches, including client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, and mindfulness.
That means conversations look at what you feel, what you do, and what thoughts get in the way. Mindfulness techniques are offered to reduce reactivity and increase calm in daily life. Her background includes supporting people through grief, serious illness, caregiving stress, and endings at the end of life.
She also addresses challenges such as addiction, eating and sleeping problems, attention differences, and compassion fatigue. Kimberly aims to make change manageable and realistic. Therapy with her will include moments to vent and to celebrate small wins.
She helps people build coping skills, make a plan, and keep progress going after sessions end. The focus is on practical change and steadier, more fulfilling daily life.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-centered work focuses on understanding your perspective and building a respectful, supportive relationship. Online sessions use that same focus to help you talk through problems, find strengths, and set practical goals that feel doable.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In teletherapy this becomes a hands-on process where you identify unhelpful thinking, try small behavioral experiments, and track results between meetings to see what changes help most.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm. These exercises translate well to video or phone sessions and can be short practices you use during a stressful day.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options and adapt methods to fit your needs, goals, and preferences. That collaboration helps make sure the work feels relevant and respectful of your pace.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like scheduling flexibility and fewer travel needs. Video calls let you work face to face, phone sessions can be easier when lower bandwidth is needed, and messaging or live chat can fit quick check-ins or brief support between appointments. These options help therapy fit into busy lives while keeping the focus on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English