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 Meet Kimberly  Kimberly is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker through the state of Florida with a passion to empower others to overcome the challenges of life. She is a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor as well as supervisor of clinical social work interns pursuing licensure. She uses a holistic approach in addressing all factors impacting a person, including environmental stressors and trauma history, to bring about positive change. Emphasis is placed on connection between mind, body, and spirit, with insight facilitating a healthy balance. Her Christian faith has led her to the field of clinical social work and belief in the ability to heal. Having personal experience through the struggles of life, she feels honored with the opportunity to empower clients to break free from their pain to emerge with freedom and peace, strengthened by stronger coping skills and a more positive outlook on life. She enjoys working with children, families, and adults with unresolved childhood trauma or stress. Kimberly also trained as a Yoga Teacher to be able to help clients experience the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual benefits of yoga, including stress relief and learning to be in the present. "Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase." Martin Luther King, Jr. Education: - Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work and French minor from the University of Georgia in 1998, Magna Cum Laude
- Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of Central Florida in 2003, with a Certificate in Children's Services
Training & Therapeutic Approaches include: - Play therapy, particularly sand tray, which is a safe way for clients of all ages to work through trauma and other issues
- EMDR(Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing), one of the most effective therapies for trauma
- Solution focused brief therapy, a positive approach to resolution
- Mindfulness, including deep breathing, guided imagery, meditation, yoga, and qi-gong
- Rapid Resolution Therapy
- Kimberly strongly believes in the continuous learning experience and enjoys staying current with evidenced based best practice approaches, not only to maintain continuing education requirements for licensure and play therapy credential, but more importantly to efficiently guide clients through the healing process.
Experience includes: - Over 10 years in social services
- Foster care, adoption, youth shelter, school-based counseling, and sexual assault crisis center settings
- Children, adolescents, and adults
- Individual, couples, family, and group counseling
- Counseling focusing on issues of attachment, abuse, neglect, sexual violence, low self-esteem, stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, anger, social skills, divorce, blended families, adjustment, parenting, child behavioral issues, and other family related issues
- Graduate Research Assistant, focusing on research related to school counseling and youth issues
- Clinical Director of a sexual assault crisis center, supervising counselors and building up the counseling department
- School-based counselor at an elementary school working with children individually and in groups, as well as classroom prevention activities and parent & teacher training/psycho-education
- Trained foster & adoptive parents and completed family assessments/home studies for approval as foster/adoptive parents
- Assistant teacher of adolescents aged 12-17 at an emergency youth shelter for children removed from their homes due to abuse, neglect, abandonment, and juvenile delinquency
- Personal multicultural experience from living in Europe as well as working on cruise ships
Professional Qualifications and Associations: - Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) through the State of Florida Department of Health (SW#8600)
- Qualified Supervisor through the State of Florida Department of Health to supervise registered clinical social work interns pursuing licensure
- Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor (RPT-S) through the Association for Play Therapy to supervise play therapists
- EMDRIA (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing International Association) member
- APT (Association for Play Therapy) member-national and FL chapter
- NASW (National Association of Social Workers) member-national and FL chapter
- Mental Health Association of Southwest Florida member
- Certified MAPP instructor (Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting--foster care/adoption parent training)
- In process of completing yoga teacher training
Call Kimberly directly at (239) 687-8286 for more information or to schedule an appointment. Member of Good Therapy.org Psychology Today
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