About Kimberly
Kimberly Sylla is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who aims to help people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, and life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely, focusing on what matters most to each person. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth, with an emphasis on small steps that fit daily life.
She brings 25 years of experience to her work and draws on a range of therapy styles to match individual needs.
Background and approach
Kimberly uses approaches like cognitive behavioral ideas, acceptance and commitment strategies, and emotion-focused work to help clients notice patterns and try new ways of coping. She also incorporates skills from dialectical behavior methods for managing intense emotions. Her background includes a Master of Social Work from Temple University and a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from La Salle University.
Kimberly also holds a credential in advanced drug and alcohol counseling and has supported people dealing with trauma, ADHD, bipolar concerns, grief, and caregiving stress. She has practiced in Pennsylvania and brings long experience across many common life struggles. In sessions she aims to be warm, direct, and nonjudgmental.
Conversations focus on strengths and practical steps rather than labels. She encourages people to set realistic goals and to try techniques between meetings. Outside of clinical work Kimberly enjoys reading, travel, cultural events, and time with her son.
She also completed a law degree at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law in 2009, which adds to her varied perspective on systems and advocacy.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Kimberly often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions when someone wants practical ways to move forward.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors. CBT skills are straightforward to practice between sessions and work well for anxiety, mood challenges, sleep problems, and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the online work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and daily life. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different routines. Video is good for a full conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit quick check-ins or times when a short check-in is needed. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, family, and appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Utah, Connecticut
- Languages
- English