Kimberly Merolla-Brito
Compassionate, practical support for daily family life
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kimberly
Kimberly Merolla-Brito is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, relationship strain, and substance use concerns. She also addresses grief, self-esteem, sleep and eating problems, anger, career issues, ADHD, and coping with major life changes. Kimberly brings 15 years of experience providing clinical care in Rhode Island.
Her style is warm and interactive. She listens carefully and treats people with respect and compassion.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps and honest conversation rather than labels. Kimberly draws from client-centered techniques and cognitive behavioral therapy to build a plan that fits each person. She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing tools when those approaches help a client reach goals.
Treatment emphasizes small, concrete changes that feel doable on a busy schedule. New clients begin where they are and set goals together with the therapist. Kimberly aims to keep sessions focused and efficient, honoring clients' time and priorities.
She offers a variety of communication options so people can choose what works best for them. Her practice includes work related to family and parenting concerns among other areas of focus. Sessions are conducted in English and are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
For anyone ready to take a step toward change, she supports practical progress and steady momentum.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist follows the client's pace, reflects what is heard, and helps people clarify their goals and values. This approach is useful for building trust and sorting through parenting and relationship worries.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. Sessions work on small, practical changes and skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve daily routines. CBT is often used for stress, sleep issues, and mood concerns.
Mindfulness techniques teach simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These practices can help with anger, anxiety, and coping during times of big change.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, strengths, and preferences and together decide which methods to try first. Plans may change as progress is made and new goals emerge.
Online therapy lets people connect from home or on the go using video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. That flexibility makes it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules and helps keep therapy consistent when life gets hectic.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English
Next step
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