About Kimberli
Kimberli "Kim" Cumming is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and life changes. She brings a calm, straightforward approach and aims to make therapy a practical part of daily life for worried parents and busy people. Kim has 25 years of experience in clinical work.
She focuses on helping people build self-esteem, handle transitions, and cope with feelings of emptiness or loneliness. She also supports those dealing with caregiving stress, commitment questions, and midlife concerns.
Background and approach
Her style is collaborative and person-focused. Sessions often center on listening closely, naming patterns, and practicing clearer communication. Kim emphasizes self-compassion and small, realistic steps that fit into a busy routine.
She works with issues related to family of origin, attachment, divorce and separation, infidelity, and guilt or shame. Kim also brings experience with aging and geriatric concerns and mood disorders, helping people find purpose and steadiness through change. Kim holds licenses as LCSW, CSW, and LMSW and practices from Michigan.
She offers practical tools and conversational coaching alongside therapy to help clients act on what they learn in sessions. The aim is steady progress, not quick fixes, with attention to what matters most in each person’s life.
Client-Centered Care Online and Practical Options
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It is built on active listening, respect for each person's experience, and working at the client's pace. This approach helps with anxiety, relationship worries, low self-worth, and the stress of life changes by encouraging insight and self-directed growth.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide what methods fit their goals, needs, and daily life. Together they will adjust the approach over time so sessions match what is most helpful.
Online sessions are available as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and practice of communication skills. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is preferred. Live chat or text messaging can suit quick check-ins, short coaching moments, or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work when life circumstances change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Colorado, Michigan
- Languages
- English
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