Kimberly Birrell
Experienced trauma-informed LMSW
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kimberly
Kimberly Birrell is a licensed social worker with 30 years of counseling experience. She practices in Michigan and brings a long history of helping people facing trauma, grief, anxiety, addiction, and major life changes. Her work draws on many years supporting clients through strong emotions like anger and deep loss.
She also offers guidance around relationships, intimacy, sleep and eating concerns, career stress, and self-esteem. Kimberly emphasizes straightforward, practical care.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and focused on what matters most to each person. She works with people to build steps they can use between meetings. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes.
Her background includes extended work with combat military over the past decade, and broad experience addressing trauma and generational patterns. Kimberly uses evidence-based techniques tailored to each need, drawing on skills learned across a long clinical career. She explains options clearly and helps clients choose what fits best.
She understands how compassion fatigue and caregiver stress can wear people down, and she helps clients find better balance. Conversations often include coping tools, communication strategies, and planning for life transitions. Kimberly aims to leave people feeling more capable and less overwhelmed.
Therapy with her is practical and respectful. She meets clients where they are and builds plans that make sense for everyday life. People who want clear steps and steady support may find her approach helpful.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Kimberly uses established, evidence-based techniques to guide her work. One common approach focuses on processing trauma through structured conversations and coping skills to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning. Another approach centers on skill-building for anxiety and mood concerns, teaching breathing, grounding, and behavior changes to manage symptoms and rebuild routines.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. She talks with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then tests methods to see what fits best. That collaborative process helps shape a treatment plan that feels realistic and useful for the person in front of her.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Sessions can happen by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging so clients can pick what works for them. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point