Alison Kimball
Family-focused licensed social worker
- Credentials
- LMSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Alison
Alison Kimball is a licensed social worker practicing in Florida. She holds an LMSW and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and brings 20 years of experience to sessions. Parents and family members looking for straightforward support will find clear, patient guidance from her.
Alison focuses on practical steps that help people manage stress, relationships, parenting, and life transitions. Her approach starts with building a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters most and helps clients set simple goals they can work toward between sessions. Alison uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person’s lead and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and change behaviors. She also incorporates mindfulness tools to reduce anxiety and improve focus in day-to-day life.
Motivational Interviewing is used when clients are weighing change, especially around addictions or habit shifts. Solution-Focused Therapy helps keep work practical by targeting small, achievable changes. Alison has experience across many family-related concerns, including blended family issues, adoption and foster care, fatherhood topics, and caregiver stress.
She also addresses trauma, grief, depression, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and substance-related problems. Her style emphasizes steady support and realistic skills families can use at home. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Prospective clients start by completing a brief matching questionnaire and then schedule a time that fits their needs.
Approaches that translate well to online family work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the parent's or individual's priorities. The therapist creates space for people to say what matters most and helps them find their own solutions, which can be especially useful for family conversations and parenting worries.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches concrete tools for reducing anxiety, improving mood, and changing behaviors that get in the way of family life or work performance.
Mindfulness Therapy adds short practices to increase calm and focus. These techniques help with stress, anger, and staying present during difficult parenting moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Alison collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and comfort level. She adjusts tools as needs shift, combining listening, skill-building, and small action steps together.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. That means people can meet from home, fit sessions around childcare or work, and use shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. These options help families keep progress moving forward even when life is busy.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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