About Kimberly
Dr. Kimberly Kerksiek is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 18 years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship pain, trauma, and substance concerns.
Her style is calm and practical and she focuses on what will help a person feel steadier in day-to-day life. She combines a client-centered stance with clear techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. Sessions are collaborative - she listens first, then offers tools and practices that match each person's goals.
Background and approach
That might mean learning new coping strategies, shifting unhelpful thinking patterns, or practicing grounding techniques after a distressing memory. Dr. Kerksiek also brings experience working with intimacy and relationship issues, including communication and commitment concerns.
She uses elements of the Gottman Method to help partners improve how they talk and repair conflict. For people dealing with trauma, she may integrate EMDR-style approaches to reduce the emotional charge of painful memories. Her practice addresses a wide range of life challenges: grief, parenting strain, body image and eating concerns, caregiver stress, addiction, and job-related strain.
She works with people facing major life transitions and complex emotional patterns like codependency and burnout. Based in Texas, she offers sessions in English and uses flexible formats to fit different schedules. The first steps are a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling a session that suits the client.
How her approaches work online
Dr. Kerksiek uses client-centered work to focus sessions on the concerns the client brings. That means the therapist listens carefully and helps a person use their strengths to move forward, whether the issue is anxiety, grief, or relationship strain.She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. In short sessions, clients learn to recognize unhelpful thinking patterns and try practical changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. For trauma-related concerns she may use elements of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to help lessen the intensity of painful memories and reactions.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust strategies based on what works for each person’s goals and comfort level. Collaboration helps find the best fit over a few sessions.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let most people work in real time with visual cues. Phone sessions can be an easier option when bandwidth is limited or to fit a short check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow more frequent, brief communication and can help people practice skills between sessions. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care around busy schedules and life demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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