About Kimberly
Kimberly Stratton is a licensed clinician in Michigan with 20 years of experience supporting people through anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and major life changes. She focuses on helping clients build self-esteem, improve communication, and heal from past hurts. Her manner is warm and direct, aimed at practical change rather than lots of theory.
Clients can expect a collaborative approach that adapts to their needs. Kimberly draws on client-centered methods to keep the conversation focused on the client's experience.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. When trauma is part of the story, she uses EMDR methods alongside mindfulness to reduce the hold of painful memories. Those methods are presented in steps, so people know what to expect and can move at a steady pace.
Her work also addresses stress from caregiving, chronic illness, addiction, and workplace strain. She pays attention to how past relationships shape present choices and helps people find new ways to respond. Kimberly blends practical tools with listening and validation.
Sessions often include skill practice, coping strategies, and chances to reframe difficult thoughts. Over time, many clients notice clearer thinking and more ease in daily life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead to clarify goals and feelings. Online sessions use that same give-and-take so clients set the pace and topics each visit.Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. In remote sessions this often looks like practicing skills, keeping brief thought records, and reviewing small experiments between meetings.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR, is used when trauma memories cause intense reactions. The therapist breaks the work into clear steps and adapts pacing for video or phone sessions so people can process at a steady rate.
Finding the right fit is a shared process. The therapist will discuss options and tailor methods based on the client's goals, comfort level, and progress, adjusting techniques as needed.
Online formats offer practical flexibility: video calls approximate in-person contact, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier on the eyes, live chat can support brief check-ins, and text messaging lets clients share updates between meetings. These choices help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping momentum toward change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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