Dr. Kimberly Kerksiek, LMFT
Compassionate, practical therapy for life's challenges
About Kimberly
Dr. Kimberly Kerksiek helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, addiction, trauma, grief, and issues with intimacy and self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also supports those coping with depression, bipolar concerns, career strain, parenting stress, and compassion fatigue. Her work includes attention to body image, codependency, and communication problems.
Dr. Kerksiek is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - based in Texas with 18 years of experience.
She keeps sessions focused and practical. People can expect a calm, direct style that centers the client's goals and strengths.
She listens first, then outlines clear steps to move forward. Her approach draws on client-centered work and cognitive behavioral ideas to help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also uses mindfulness techniques to manage stress and emotion. For people affected by trauma, she incorporates EMDR to process painful memories when appropriate.
When relationships are the focus she brings methods informed by the Gottman Method to improve communication and reduce conflict. Sessions aim to teach skills that can be used day to day, not just talked about in the office.
Dr. Kerksiek has worked in both independent practice and community settings, giving her experience with a wide range of life situations.
She prefers a collaborative process and helps each person find what works for them. If someone is ready to make changes, she offers steady guidance and concrete tools to help them move forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person from their own point of view. The therapist listens carefully and helps people clarify goals and strengths so they can make choices that match their values. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns and manage anxiety or mood concerns. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that helps people process distressing memories so those memories have less hold over day-to-day life.Picking the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will ask about current problems, past experiences, and personal goals, then suggest options and adjust methods as work progresses. This collaborative process helps ensure the plan fits the person's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face when schedules or distance make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions can be a good alternative when bandwidth is low or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for ongoing support between sessions and for people who prefer typed communication. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep consistent momentum toward change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English