Kimberly Tomlinson
Calm, experienced support for family life
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kimberly
Kimberly Tomlinson is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, parenting challenges, addiction, and mood concerns like depression and bipolar disorder. She practices in Florida and brings 20 years of experience to sessions. Her tone is practical and steady, and she aims to make space for honest conversation and real problem-solving.
She meets with individuals, couples, families, and groups. Sessions may include talk, skill building, and strategies to manage symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
She can also offer faith-informed counseling when clients prefer a Christian perspective. Kimberly blends several evidence-based methods to fit each situation. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking and behaviors.
She uses attachment-based and emotionally-focused work to strengthen bonds and improve communication in relationships. DBT skills are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. Her client-centered stance keeps the person's goals and priorities at the center of care.
She adapts approaches for concerns such as trauma, ADHD, grief, and caregiving stress. Her background spans a wide range of issues including eating and sleeping problems, intimacy and sexual concerns, career and life transitions, and blended family or adoption-related challenges. Sessions are available in English and she accepts international clients.
The aim is practical support that fits each family's life and values.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on safety and trust in relationships. Online sessions use discussion and exercises to explore attachment patterns and help people build more stable bonds, which can be useful for couples and family concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches straightforward skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In virtual sessions this often means setting clear goals, practicing new responses between meetings, and tracking progress together.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy aims to deepen emotional connection and improve communication. Through guided conversation, the therapist helps people identify core emotions and try new ways of relating during sessions conducted remotely.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Plans can be adjusted over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules and to maintain continuity during life transitions. Therapists can assign short exercises to practice between contacts and check progress across formats, so care stays practical and goal-oriented.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- 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