About Kimberly
Kimberly Berman is a licensed clinical social worker with thirty years of experience. She offers calm, patient care and aims to help people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, or changes in life. Her style is low-key and steady so clients can move at a comfortable pace.
She begins by listening closely to what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on understanding patterns that cause repeated pain, and on finding concrete ways to cope day to day.
Background and approach
Kimberly pays attention to family and parenting concerns, issues around intimacy, and challenges like low self-esteem or depression. Her background includes long-term work in psychodynamic ideas and psychoanalytic training, which helps her notice how past experiences shape present feelings. She blends that perspective with practical conversations so sessions feel useful and grounded.
This mix supports people dealing with compulsions, phobias, postpartum mood changes, seasonal mood shifts, and social anxiety. Kimberly offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit varied schedules. She practices in New York as an LCSW and conducts work in English.
People who prefer a relaxed, relational approach often find her style approachable. She focuses on building rapport and steady trust so clients can explore difficult topics at a pace that feels right.
Psychodynamic care delivered online
Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to how past relationships and experiences affect current feelings and behavior. It helps uncover patterns that keep someone stuck and offers time to reflect on emotions, attachments, and recurring conflicts.Kimberly combines psychodynamic ideas with practical conversation. She will collaborate with each person to find the right mix of depth and day-to-day coping. Figuring out the best approach happens together, based on goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for most therapy work when seeing facial cues helps the conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, quick support between sessions, or when writing helps organize thoughts.
These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue care during moves or schedule changes. Kimberly works with clients in English and brings her psychodynamic perspective to online formats so therapeutic conversation can be sustained across different session types.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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