Kimberly Nixon
Compassionate LCSW with practical tools
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kimberly
Kimberly Nixon is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Florida with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and addiction. Kim also addresses issues like self-esteem, coping with life changes, parenting concerns, sleep and eating struggles, and intimacy-related matters.
Her tone is warm and practical, aimed at people who feel overwhelmed and want clear steps forward. She uses a nurturing, strengths-based approach to build a plan aligned with each person’s goals.
Background and approach
Sessions begin with listening to what feels most pressing and then developing realistic strategies. Clients can expect time to talk through hard moments, space to celebrate progress, and practical tools to try between meetings. Kim brings many years of practice to complex situations, including chronic illness, caregiver stress, first responder issues, and end-of-life concerns.
Her background supports work on communication problems, isolation, and co-occurring conditions such as bipolar disorder and ADHD. This experience informs how she helps people break problems into manageable steps. Her methods include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing to build motivation and new habits.
Psychodynamic perspectives may also be used to understand deeper patterns when helpful. The process emphasizes collaboration - you set the goals and she helps map the path. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Kim recommends starting with a short assessment to match priorities and create a plan that fits daily life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist uses this approach to make sure goals reflect the client's priorities and strengths. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and behavior and offers concrete strategies to change patterns that cause distress. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, useful for stress, anxiety, and ongoing low mood.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and what feels helpful. From there she tailors techniques and checks in often to adjust the plan if needed, so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These formats let people keep therapy going during busy weeks, manage appointments from home, and use shorter check-ins when needed. The mix of approaches and flexible formats aims to make care easier to access and easier to use alongside everyday life.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Kimberly
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point