Kimberly Giliberti

Kimberly Giliberti is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and the strain of life transitions. She also supports people facing relationship and family problems, parenting stress, addiction concerns, and struggles with self-esteem or intimacy. Kimberly works with adults and adolescents on mood disorders, ADHD challenges, and trauma-related symptoms.

She trained in psychology at the University of Central Florida and completed graduate study at NOVA Southeastern University, earning a Master of Science in Psychology and a Specialist degree in School Psychology. Kimberly holds the Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential (LMHC).

Her usual approach leans toward cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical strategies and small experiments between sessions. She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, an approach some people choose for trauma, grief, and intense anxiety symptoms. Kimberly adapts her methods to what each person needs in the moment.

In sessions she helps people build clearer communication, manage impulsivity and anger, and develop coping plans for workplace stress and compassion fatigue. She works on concrete skills for panic attacks, social anxiety, and obsessive behaviors like trichotillomania. Many clients also address attachment concerns and isolation by practicing new interaction patterns.

Kimberly aims to make therapy straightforward and useful. She focuses on goals people notice in daily life - sleeping better, reducing panic, handling conflict, and moving through big changes. Her background combines school psychology perspectives with mental health counseling to support practical problem solving.

How CBT and EMDR can work in online therapy

Kimberly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and change thought patterns that feed anxiety, depression, and panic. CBT often involves setting small goals, trying new behaviors between sessions, and practicing skills that reduce symptoms over time.

She also brings Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, into work with trauma, grief, and intense anxiety when appropriate. EMDR focuses on processing disturbing memories and reducing their emotional charge through a structured set of steps and bilateral stimulation techniques.

Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. Kimberly will collaborate with each person to decide whether CBT, EMDR, or a mix of methods best fits their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is revisited as progress is made.

Session logistics are not listed in the original profile, so confirm available online formats before booking. In general, online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and offer options for people who prefer not to be on camera. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, homework, and trauma-processing work to remote sessions when clinically appropriate.