About Kimberly
Kimberly Stratton is a licensed social worker who helps people handle hard life moments. She works with adults facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, addiction, and major life changes. Kimberly aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful for everyday life.
She brings 20 years of practice as a licensed master social worker and a licensed clinical social worker in Michigan, and she keeps the focus on what each person needs right now.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on building self-esteem, improving communication, and coping with stress or compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, chronic illness, caregiving burdens, and mood struggles such as bipolar and depression. Kimberly uses a mix of approaches to fit the person rather than a one-size-fits-all method.
She draws on client-centered work to follow a person's pace, cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and EMDR when trauma processing is appropriate. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing also shape practical steps forward. In the room she aims to be warm and direct.
Conversations tend to focus on clear goals, small experiments to try between sessions, and skills to reduce intense feelings when they arise. The work is collaborative and paced to each person's comfort. Her practice serves people in Michigan and sessions are offered in English.
Kimberly supports clients coping with blended-family issues, caregiver stress, chronic pain and illness, substance concerns, eating problems, and a broad range of relationship and life transitions.
Therapeutic approaches for online healing
Client-centered therapy focuses on following the person's lead and creating space to be heard. It helps when someone needs empathy and time to make sense of their feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and uses simple steps to change unhelpful patterns; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, commonly called EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that supports people who want to process past traumatic memories in a paced way.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what feels manageable before suggesting a path. That decision is collaborative and can change as needs evolve during treatment.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care flexible. Video lets you use visual cues and a fuller conversation, while phone can be easier if bandwidth is low. Chat and text work well for brief check-ins, real-time coping support, or people who prefer written communication. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Arizona
- Languages
- English