About Kim
Kim Villarreal is a licensed social worker who focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for stress and anxiety. She uses clear conversation and simple strategies so people can start feeling steadier in daily life. She brings ten years of licensed clinical experience and speaks English and Spanish.
Kim creates a calm space where people can say what they are feeling without judgment. She listens for the thoughts and habits that make situations harder.
Background and approach
Then she works with each person to try small changes and new ways of responding to stress, grief, relationship strain, or chronic health concerns. Her approach mixes several methods so sessions can fit each person's needs. She draws on tools from cognitive behavioral work to notice and shift unhelpful thinking.
She also uses acceptance-based ideas to build values-based action when worry, grief, or mood problems get in the way. In session, Kim keeps language plain and goals practical. Conversations often include pacing for manageable steps, short skill practice, and checking what is actually helping.
This makes it easier to use what is learned between appointments and see steady progress. Kim holds LICSW and LCSW credentials and practices in Texas. She supports people facing life transitions, parenting stress, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse recovery, mood disorders, and work or career issues.
For Spanish speakers she offers services in Spanish as well as English.
How therapeutic methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match your values. It helps when worry or mood problems keep someone stuck, and it can guide small steps toward a life that matters to the client.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to change patterns that increase anxiety or low mood. It is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and managing responses to difficult situations.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try different methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. This is a collaborative process where client feedback guides which techniques are kept or changed.
Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow longer conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins or skill reminders. These options provide flexibility for scheduling, quieter check-ins during work breaks, or shorter contacts between fuller sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas, District of Columbia, Oregon
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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