About Kimberly
Kimberly Osmanagic is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri with 18 years of experience. She helps people managing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and eating concerns. She approaches therapy with respect for each person's story and strengths.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make that step feel possible. Kimberly uses simple, down-to-earth conversation to understand what matters most. She combines a client-centered way of working with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques are used to help people notice thoughts and feelings without getting overwhelmed. When trauma or painful memories are part of the story, she offers EMDR-informed methods to reduce the intensity of those memories and the reactions that follow. Motivational interviewing is used when people are weighing change or struggling with addictions and eating behaviors.
Sessions focus on small, achievable steps that fit into daily life. She also draws on health coaching ideas to support goals around sleep, eating, and coping with long-term illness or caregiving strain. Conversations include problem solving, building routines, and strengthening communication with important people.
Kimberly keeps sessions practical and compassionate. She listens first, then helps create a plan tailored to each person's needs. Her work centers on helping people feel steadier, clearer, and more able to handle life changes.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead, helping them feel heard and respected while they decide what matters most. This approach supports work on stress, relationships, self-esteem, and coping with life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It offers clear exercises and homework to break unhelpful patterns, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and eating concerns.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, helps reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and the strong reactions they cause. In online sessions this method can be adapted into structured processing and grounding techniques to make distressing memories feel less overwhelming.
Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they build a plan that may combine approaches and change over time based on what works.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is an issue. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers writing to talk. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or health routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English