Kim Scheft
Supportive counselor for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kim
Kim Scheft is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 29 years of experience. She offers a calm, listening presence for people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and other life changes. Kim believes reaching out is a strong first step and aims to create a space where clients feel heard and understood.
Her style is gentle and flexible. Sessions focus on listening first, then practical steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to follow the client's lead and uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits. Kim also integrates techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when they fit the work. Over her career she has helped people manage mood disorders, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, and family problems.
She also addresses issues such as codependency, control struggles, avoidance, and the impact of family of origin dynamics. Kim lists hypnotherapy among her tools and teaches coping skills for stress. Her approach is practical and relational.
She listens, reflects, and collaborates on goals that matter to each person. People who want clear tools alongside empathic listening may find this approach fits their needs. Kim is licensed in Florida as an LMHC and communicates in English.
International clients are accepted. To begin, visitors should use the site’s Start Therapy flow to match and schedule sessions.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Client-Centered Therapy puts the person's priorities first. The therapist follows the client's pace, offers reflection, and helps clarify goals. This approach is useful for people who want a respectful, accepting space to talk through family and parenting worries.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It breaks problems into manageable steps and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, and coping during life transitions.
Dialetical Behavior Therapy emphasizes skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It teaches techniques for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and clearer communication, which can be helpful for relationship stress and impulsivity.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most useful based on goals and preferences. That process may include trying different techniques and adjusting plans over time.
Confirm the specific online session options before booking, since formats were not listed in the biography. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can use the methods above in remote sessions to teach skills, reflect on patterns, and help people practice new ways of relating.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Kim
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point