About Kimberly
Kimberly McKenzie is a Licensed Master Social Worker with two decades of clinical experience in Michigan. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and cope with addictions. Her work also addresses trauma, depression, and LGBT-related concerns.
Kimberly keeps conversations straightforward and respectful. She listens first, then adapts the plan to each person's needs. She emphasizes practical steps people can try between sessions.
Her background includes long experience providing support for relationship and family concerns.
Background and approach
She also helps with body image struggles, chronic illness and pain, and problems tied to codependency and communication. Kimberly has worked with people affected by domestic violence, divorce and separation, and substance use issues. She also supports those facing guilt, shame, and impulse challenges, and she has experience with first responder matters and gender dysphoria.
Sessions are conducted in English and draw on approaches that focus on changing thoughts and behaviors. Kimberly aims to help clients build skills that reduce symptoms and make day-to-day life easier.
How therapeutic approaches and online sessions work together
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, is a short-term approach that focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical techniques for managing anxiety, changing unhelpful thinking patterns, and reducing avoidance or compulsive reactions. In online sessions Kimberly uses straightforward, skill-focused work to help people handle stress, cravings, trauma reminders, or depressive patterns. She guides clients through exercises, homework, and real-world practice to build coping skills over time. Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Kimberly will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then recommend ways of working that fit those needs. She adjusts techniques as progress is made so the plan stays useful and relevant. Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people update a therapist between sessions, share quick concerns, or work through exercises when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and flexible around daily life.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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