About Kimberly
Kimberly Birrell is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 30 years of counseling experience. She practices in Michigan and brings a steady, practical approach to helping people manage anxiety, trauma, grief, and life transitions. Her work centers on listening first and then shaping a plan that fits each person.
Sessions focus on real skills and steps people can use between meetings. She aims to help clients feel more in control over emotion, relationships, and daily routines.
Background and approach
Kimberly has long experience supporting people with addiction, anger, depression, and stress concerns. She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, career and self-esteem struggles, and challenges tied to parenting, caregiving, and aging. Her practice includes attention to attachment, abandonment, dissociation, and the emotional fallout of trauma.
She also supports those facing gender dysphoria, LGBT concerns, first responder stress, and the complications of blended family dynamics. Kimberly works with a collaborative style. She helps people set concrete goals, teaches coping strategies, and adjusts plans as needs change.
Her focus is to make therapeutic work practical and usable in everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Kimberly uses evidence-based techniques focused on practical change. One approach emphasizes working through trauma in manageable steps, helping people reduce overwhelming symptoms and regain daily function. Another focuses on skills for emotion regulation and stress management so people can respond to triggers with less reactivity.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they adapt methods and try different strategies until a good fit emerges.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send notes or check in between sessions and can fit into busy days more easily.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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