About Kimberly
Dr. Kimberly Yazell is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 17 years of experience in mental health care. She brings steady clinical experience to conversations about stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and related concerns.
Her tone is warm and straightforward, and she aims to help people feel heard and move toward practical change. She has worked across settings with adults and teens, including care for dual diagnosis and complex presentations.
Background and approach
Her background includes addressing substance use alongside mood and trauma-related concerns. She focuses on helping people manage symptoms that interfere with daily life and relationships. In sessions she uses clear, evidence-informed methods.
That means identifying patterns that keep problems going and trying new ways of responding. She blends practical skills with attention to a person’s values and goals. Dr.
Yazell pays attention to how life roles and stresses affect mental health. She helps with parenting strain, caregiver stress, career pressure, grief, and sleep problems among other issues. She also supports people facing identity-related concerns, including LGBT topics.
Her style balances direct skill teaching with listening and reflection. She works collaboratively to set concrete goals and track progress. People who prefer hands-on tools and straightforward conversation tend to find this approach helpful.
Approaches and online options that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and perspective, offering a listening, respectful stance that helps people clarify what matters and build on their strengths. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage depression, and change unhelpful habits. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) adds skills for regulating intense emotions and improving how someone copes with stress and relationships.Finding the right approach is usually a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they will try methods that feel most likely to fit, and adjust the plan based on what actually works.
Online sessions make it easier to use these approaches from wherever you are. Video calls let you work face to face for teaching skills and practicing new responses. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging offer flexible, brief ways to stay connected between sessions or check in during a busy week, making it simpler to keep momentum toward your goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English