Kimberly Stratton
Compassionate Michigan social worker for families
- Credentials
- LMSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan, Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kimberly
Kimberly Stratton is a licensed social worker practicing in Michigan who focuses on helping people manage relationship strain and family concerns. She brings 20 years of experience and a calm, practical style to sessions. Many clients come for help with anxiety, depression, stress, and major life changes.
Her work also includes addiction, trauma and abuse, and struggles with self-esteem. Kimberly uses clear, evidence-informed methods so conversations feel useful from the first meeting.
Background and approach
She listens closely and helps clients set simple, realistic goals. Sessions emphasize skill-building for communication and coping, plus tools for handling mood and stress. She adapts strategies to each person rather than following one fixed method.
Her training includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing for trauma work. She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy and mindfulness practices to help people feel more grounded and understood. Motivational Interviewing is used when someone needs support finding their own motivation for change.
People who are dealing with family issues, caregiver stress, chronic illness, or blended-family challenges often find practical steps to try. She also addresses concerns like communication problems, codependency, and addiction. For those facing aging-related questions or cancer caregiving, her experience includes these specific stressors.
Kimberly holds LMSW and LCSW credentials and offers sessions in English. She provides therapy via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging and works within a subscription model that can be canceled anytime.
How Kimberly’s Approaches Translate to Online Sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgment. Online sessions using this approach center on the client’s priorities and build a collaborative plan for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. It works well for stress, mood concerns, and everyday coping problems. EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method that helps process painful memories and reduce their emotional impact; it is used when trauma or past abuse is a primary concern.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels comfortable, then try methods that fit those needs. Sessions are collaborative: techniques are adjusted based on progress and feedback so the plan evolves with the client.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for busy families and caregivers. Video calls let people use visual connection from home, while phone sessions remove the need for a camera. Live chat and text messaging provide short, flexible options for check-ins and skill practice between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit consistent support into a hectic schedule and to access licensed professionals without extra travel.
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
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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