About Kimberly
Kimberly Root is a licensed master social worker who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She offers straightforward, respectful support and focuses on practical tools that people can use between sessions. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and mindfulness practices to build skills for managing emotions and behavior.
Conversations are interactive and tailored to each person's needs rather than following a fixed script.
Background and approach
Kimberly has nine years of experience as a psychotherapist and life coach in Michigan. That background includes work with trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, bipolar mood challenges, and struggles with self-esteem and anger. She also supports people facing caregiver stress, chronic illness, and transitions like divorce or separation.
In sessions she helps people name the patterns that cause distress and then tests small, doable changes. That can mean practicing grounding and breathing, breaking problems into manageable steps, or trying different ways of responding to upsetting thoughts. People who prefer a collaborative, skill-based approach often find her style helpful.
She aims to meet clients where they are, reduce shame around difficult feelings, and focus on practical strategies that fit daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Kimberly commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside mindfulness exercises. CBT helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. DBT focuses on emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal skills when feelings feel overwhelming. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and ground people in the present.Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and preferences, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to pick strategies that fit daily life and real-world challenges.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy schedule. Video works well for more in-depth conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a quieter check-in. Live chat and text messaging let people send short updates, ask quick questions, or get between-session support without a full appointment. These options give flexibility so people can use what suits their needs best.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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