About Kimberly
Kimberly Higgins is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience. She helps people manage anxiety, stress, grief, depression, and major life changes. Her approach is practical and straightforward.
She aims to make therapy feel hopeful and manageable. Kimberly focuses on helping people build skills they can use outside sessions. She emphasizes practical tools for coping with worry, improving communication, and handling difficult transitions.
Sessions are oriented toward small, measurable steps that add up over time.
Background and approach
Her work addresses a wide range of concerns including relationship strain, caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, body image, and attachment or abandonment worries. She also supports people facing cancer or aging-related challenges. Kimberly draws on methods from cognitive behavioral ideas, solution-focused work, motivational interviewing, and strengths-based practices to match each person's needs.
Clients can expect a respectful, non-judgmental space where feelings are heard and options are explored. Kimberly aims to combine emotional support with concrete strategies so people leave with clear next steps. She believes in addressing mind, body, and spirit when relevant to someone s goals.
Based in New Jersey, Kimberly offers sessions in English. Her practice centers on helping people find clarity, build coping skills, and move toward goals at their own pace.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Many of the methods Kimberly uses translate well to remote sessions. Cognitive behavioral techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. This helps with anxiety, worry, and depression by breaking problems into manageable steps. Solution-focused strategies look at what is working now and build on small practical changes to create momentum for coping and problem solving.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Kimberly collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She will adjust techniques over time based on how well they are helping and what the client finds most useful.
Offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging makes therapy flexible. Video is useful for fuller conversations and interactive exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when a shorter check-in or less bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief reflections, ongoing support between sessions, or when writing helps someone process feelings. These options help people fit care into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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