About Kimberly
Kimberly Carlesi is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with three years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are coping with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, depression, and major life changes. Kimberly approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
She aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supported. In sessions Kimberly listens for what feels most urgent to the client and then shapes the conversation and plan around those needs.
Background and approach
She works with people on practical tools for managing panic, reducing persistent worry, and handling mood shifts. When trauma or past abuse is part of the story, she moves at a pace that the client can tolerate while addressing safety and symptom relief. Eating concerns and body image are addressed through open conversation about habits, triggers, and self-talk.
She helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck and tries simple, achievable experiments to test new ways of coping. Communication problems and feelings of isolation are often connected to anxiety, and those threads are explored together. Kimberly supports people who struggle with guilt, shame, control issues, impulsivity, and the social fears that make everyday life harder.
She centers the client’s goals and adapts strategies to fit their daily routines. The work is collaborative, practical, and paced to the person’s readiness. Sessions are offered in English and tailored to each person’s situation.
Kimberly encourages small steps and regular check-ins so progress can be noticed and adjusted over time.
Evidence-based techniques and online care
Kimberly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on symptom relief and practical change. One common approach emphasizes skills for anxiety and panic - teaching breathing and grounding strategies, and testing small behavioral experiments to reduce avoidance. This helps people manage acute worry and regain confidence in everyday situations.Another approach she applies centers on trauma-informed pacing. That means addressing traumatic memories carefully while building skills for emotional regulation and safety first. This can reduce the intensity of intrusive memories and make daily functioning easier over time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kimberly works with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, comfort level, and life demands. She adjusts methods as progress is made and as priorities change, so treatment stays relevant and doable.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. Video sessions let people work face to face when they prefer visual connection. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during brief breaks. Live chat and messaging provide shorter, ongoing check-ins and written reflection between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the work consistent and focused.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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