About Kimberlee
Kimberlee Thomas helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. She also supports those coping with addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, sleep problems, parenting challenges, anger, and career concerns. Kimberlee is a Licensed Professional Counselor, and she draws on three decades of experience to guide practical steps forward.
Her approach is straightforward and person-focused. Sessions begin with listening so concerns are clear. She works with each person to set realistic goals and build small, usable skills between visits.
Background and approach
Mindfulness, breathing, and brief meditation are often taught as tools to manage strong feelings. Kimberlee uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also integrates dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
For trauma and difficult memories she offers eye movement desensitization and reprocessing when appropriate. Her background includes individual and group counseling in a wide range of settings. Kimberlee has worked in community mental health, inpatient psychiatric care, nursing homes, foster care systems, employee assistance programs, and Native American health services.
She has experience with substance use, severe mental illness, and grief support. Kimberlee earned a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and has worked in behavioral health for 31 years. She practices from Oklahoma and offers several online session formats.
New clients complete a short matching questionnaire to begin the intake and scheduling process.
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Kimberlee commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR when it fits the person's needs. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to feel better, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is a method for processing traumatic memories and reducing their intensity when those memories get in the way of daily life.She also brings dialectical behavior therapy skills into online sessions, teaching emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness techniques. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. Kimberlee will listen to a person's story, discuss options, and collaborate on goals and methods that feel most useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is helpful for a full session with face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat and messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing support between visits. These options make it easier to use therapy around work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English