About Kimber
Kimber Brokaw is a licensed clinical social worker who brings 16 years of experience to her practice in Illinois. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by looking at how they are wired and how old wounds still shape their choices. Kimber aims to help clients move toward the life they want by combining practical tools and reflective work.
Her style balances clear strategies with space for personal meaning.
Background and approach
She uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, psychodynamic ideas, and solution-focused techniques. Sessions often include small exercises that help clients shift from thinking to feeling so they can make different choices. Kimber helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns.
She also supports those dealing with caregiver strain, codependency, communication problems, guilt and shame, life purpose questions, and workplace or career stress. Her work is practical and grounded. Conversations explore patterns that keep people stuck and identify small, doable steps forward.
Kimber emphasizes strengths and teaches skills that can be used between sessions to build momentum. People who prefer a mix of talk and action tend to fit well with her approach. She welcomes clients who want clear tools and also want to understand the story behind their behavior.
Kimber aims to help clients feel more aligned with their goals and values.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Kimber commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness approaches. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments to reduce anxiety or depressive patterns. Mindfulness work teaches simple attention and breathing practices that help lower reactivity and increase calm in day-to-day life.She also draws on narrative therapy to help people reframe the stories they tell about themselves. Narrative work looks at the events and meanings that shape a person's life and helps uncover alternative, more helpful stories that support change.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kimber will talk with clients about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different techniques. Together they decide whether to emphasize skills training, story work, or reflective exploration and can adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers no video. Live chat and messaging work well for short check-ins, brief skill coaching, or people who want written prompts and reflections. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Iowa, Illinois
- Languages
- English
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