Dr. Kimberly Yazell
Supportive LCSW focused on practical parenting help
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kimberly
Dr. Kimberly Yazell is a licensed clinical social worker with 17 years of experience. She practices in Indiana and focuses on issues that often affect adults, such as stress, anxiety, addictions, depression, grief, and parenting challenges.
Dr. Yazell uses practical, evidence-based methods to help people make changes and cope with daily pressures. Her work is straightforward and goal oriented.
She listens closely, helps people identify patterns that cause pain, and offers concrete tools to try between sessions.
Background and approach
She uses therapies that teach skills for managing emotions, improving thinking patterns, and building stronger connections. Clients can expect clear explanations of methods and reasons for suggested exercises. Sessions move at a pace that fits each person’s needs and comfort level.
The focus is on small, manageable steps that add up over time. Dr. Yazell brings experience with a broad range of concerns, including relationship strain, intimacy issues, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.
She also addresses caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, and substance-related challenges. Her style blends active problem solving with support. She helps people set realistic goals, practice new skills, and track progress.
Services are offered in English and take place through online formats suited to each person’s routine.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and tailoring work to what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard and supports self-directed change by focusing on their goals and values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the relationship between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. This happens collaboratively, so clients can give feedback and choose what feels helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options let people fit sessions into busy days, follow up between meetings, and choose a format that feels most comfortable. For many, the variety of formats makes it easier to stick with the work and practice new skills in real 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.
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
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English
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