Dr. Kimberly Kerksiek
Compassionate therapist for stress and relationships
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kimberly
Dr. Kimberly Kerksiek is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 18 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship struggles, grief, and intimacy concerns.
She also supports people dealing with parenting challenges, career pressures, compassion fatigue, and life changes. Sessions are offered in English and are provided from Texas by a Texas LMFT. Her style is collaborative and client-centered.
She listens closely and helps clients name goals and next steps.
Background and approach
Sessions mix practical tools with reflective conversation so people can try new ways of coping between meetings. Dr. Kerksiek uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns.
She also uses EMDR for trauma work and the Gottman Method for relationship-focused therapy. Mindfulness techniques and motivational interviewing are added when they fit a person's needs. She has worked in both independent practice and community settings over her career.
That range has shaped a flexible approach that adapts to each person's situation rather than following one fixed method. For practical details, sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Costs vary with location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Dr. Kerksiek commonly combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and EMDR in her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used when trauma memories are causing distress; it helps process those memories so they have less emotional charge.Finding the right method is part of the work. She approaches therapy as a collaborative process and will work with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, comfort level, and history. Adjustments are made as therapy progresses so the plan fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make attending easier for busy or remote clients. These options let people use skills between sessions, check in when needed, and fit therapy around work and family commitments. The variety of formats supports continuity of care and provides flexible ways to stay engaged in the therapeutic process.
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.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Kimberly
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