Kimberly Lincoln
Family-focused counselor using practical therapies
- Credentials
- LMHC, LCMHC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Florida, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kimberly
Kimberly Lincoln uses a client-centered approach to guide parents and families through difficult times. She combines practical strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy with skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help people manage stress and emotional upset. Kimberly is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in both Florida and North Carolina and brings 11 years of experience to her work.
She has considerable experience supporting families and children involved with the child welfare system.
Background and approach
Much of her work has focused on stabilizing crises and helping family members rebuild functioning at home. She has also supported women who survived childhood sexual trauma and members of the LGBTQ community. Her sessions tend to be focused and goal-oriented while staying flexible to address immediate problems that arise.
Kimberly draws on motivational interviewing when people need help finding reasons to change, and she uses trauma-focused and modular approaches when healing from past events is a priority. The aim is to leave clients with clear skills to use between sessions. Kimberly understands how parenting stress and relationship strain can affect the whole household.
She helps with common family issues like communication problems, blended family challenges, adoption and foster care concerns, and co-parenting strain. She also works with individual concerns such as anxiety, depression, anger, addiction, ADHD, and self-esteem. Clients can expect a supportive, task-focused style that balances long-term goals with immediate needs.
Kimberly aims to help people feel more stable and capable in the areas that brought them to therapy.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online family care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening closely and following your priorities. The therapist creates space for parents and family members to state concerns and choose what to work on, which helps when juggling parenting demands or urgent family issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful actions. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management, and it gives concrete exercises families can practice between sessions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. These skills can reduce reactive arguments and help caregivers manage strong feelings during conflict.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and recommend techniques that fit the family and situation. That collaborative process may mix methods over time to address immediate crises while working toward longer-term change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to participate. Sessions are available by video calls for face-to-face interaction, phone sessions for spoken conversations, and live chat or text-based messaging when short, frequent check-ins are preferred. This flexibility makes it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to practice new skills in real time between meetings.
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
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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