About Kimberly
Kimberly Portanova is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 15 years of experience. She helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting challenges. Kimberly values each person's strengths and works alongside them rather than telling them what to do.
Her style centers on guiding clients through practical steps toward clearer goals. She views therapy as a collaborative process where the client sets the destination and she helps navigate obstacles.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on rebuilding confidence, improving communication, and managing strong emotions such as anger. Kimberly has led anger management groups and has long experience addressing trauma and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people working on self-love and women's issues, and she helps with mood disorders and communication problems.
Her approach combines listening with actionable ideas clients can use between sessions. Many sessions include problem-solving for everyday stress and strategies to reduce anxiety. She encourages using small, achievable changes that add up over time.
Parenting concerns are approached with practical tools to ease strain and improve family interactions. People who choose Kimberly can expect a supportive, steady presence during their work together. She emphasizes courage and empowerment, helping clients rediscover themselves and move toward the life they want.
The pace and goals are set by the client and adjusted as progress is made.
Evidence-based approaches offered online
Kimberly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach helps people learn skills to manage anxiety and strong emotions through step-by-step strategies and breathing or grounding practices. This method is useful for daily stress, panic, and when intense feelings interfere with routines.Another approach centers on processing trauma and past hurts in manageable ways. It involves breaking down difficult memories into smaller parts and working at a pace the client chooses, which can reduce their power over day-to-day life. This work often helps with post-traumatic stress and lingering effects of abuse.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Kimberly discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as needed. She helps clients try techniques and sees what fits best rather than insisting on a single way forward.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit quick updates, brief support between sessions, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and varied schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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