About Kimberly
Kimberly Kolarik is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and depression. She practices in Illinois and brings a steady, respectful approach to conversations about life changes and relationships. Kimberly listens for what matters most to each person.
She focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. Her manner is warm and interactive, and she avoids stigmatizing labels when people describe their struggles.
Background and approach
Her work includes support for relationship and family concerns, blended family issues, and challenges that follow divorce or separation. She also helps people facing chronic illness, chronic pain, codependency, and the complicated feelings that come after trauma or disaster. Kimberly draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and blends elements from cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, psychodynamic, and rational-emotive approaches.
She adapts conversations and plans so they fit each person’s situation and goals. People often come for help with communication problems, commitment questions, control issues, guilt and shame, or the pressures that come with first responder roles and fatherhood. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Beginning therapy with Kimberly starts by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling sessions according to her availability. She aims to support people as they take practical steps toward clearer thinking and steadier coping.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Kimberly uses cognitive-behavioral techniques that focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Sessions might involve setting small experiments and practical exercises to practice between meetings.She also incorporates humanistic elements that emphasize the individual's experience and values, creating space to talk about meaning, relationships, and personal goals. This helps people who want a supportive, person-centered conversation about life changes.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. Kimberly will work with each person to choose and adapt methods based on their needs, goals, and what feels most useful. Plans are adjusted as progress is made and new concerns come up.
Online therapy with her includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people read facial expressions and body language, phone calls can be a simpler check-in when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text is useful for brief updates or when typing feels easier. These options offer flexibility to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or medical appointments while staying connected to a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Blended family issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Indiana
- Languages
- English
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