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Kimberly Tomlinson

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Kimberly Tomlinson, LMHC

Florida

Florida LMHC - Anger and Relationships

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Key details

  • CredentialsLMHC
  • LicenseLMHC, Florida / MH8998
  • NPI1437282456
  • Experience20 years
  • LanguagesEnglish
  • LocationFlorida

About

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • DBT skills
  • Attachment focused work

About Kimberly

Kimberly Tomlinson is a Florida LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 20 years of experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, addictions, grief, and anger. She also supports relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting struggles, career stress, and coping with major life changes.

She works in a direct, person-focused way that centers the client's concerns. Sessions often involve talking through recent events, noticing patterns in thinking and behavior, and practicing new ways to respond. She can include Christian-based counseling when a client prefers that perspective.

Her background includes long-term work with mood disorders, trauma and abuse, OCD, ADHD, and serious mental health conditions. That experience informs how she plans sessions and prioritizes safety, realistic goals, and steady progress. She draws on several established therapeutic approaches rather than a single method.

Common tools she uses are strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking, dialectical behavior therapy skills for managing intense emotions, and attachment-based or emotionally-focused work for relationship issues. Sessions tend to balance problem-solving with noticing patterns in relationships and feelings.

People come to her when anger shows up as irritability, snapping at loved ones, building resentment, or trouble managing reactions at work. She helps people develop clearer communication, reduce reactivity, and build practical habits that make daily life smoother.

How sessions work

How her approaches translate to online care

Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in relationships and how past bonds shape present reactions. Online sessions can be used to talk through these patterns and practice new ways of connecting and communicating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets specific thoughts and behaviors; it often includes short skill practice between sessions and clear tools to reduce anger and anxious thinking. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance, which many people find useful when anger feels overwhelming.

Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. She will work with clients to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as needed.

Session format details are not specified in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when schedules require them. It also lets people practice skills in everyday settings and bring real-life situations into conversation with the therapist.

Areas of focus

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseBipolar disorderDepression

Also works with

AddictionsLGBTFamily conflictsGriefIntimacy-related issuesEating disordersSleeping disordersParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesCoping with life changesCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAging and geriatric issuesAntisocial personalityAttachment issuesAutism and Asperger SyndromeBlended family issuesBody imageCancerCaregiver issues and stressChronic pain, illness, and disabilityCo-morbidityCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDissociationDivorce and separationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionEating and food-related issuesEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFatherhood issuesFertility issuesFirst responder issuesForgivenessGuilt and shameHoardingImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMoney and financial issuesMood disordersMulticultural concernsNarcissismObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksParanoiaPersonality disordersPhobiasPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthSeasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)Self-harmSelf-loveSexual assault and abuseSexualitySocial anxiety and phobiaSomatizationTraumatic brain injuryTrichotillomaniaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Existential TherapyJungian TherapyMindfulness TherapyNarrative TherapyPsychodynamic TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused TherapyInternal Family Systems

Experience

20+ years

Listed in

Florida

Languages

English

Questions

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she help with?

She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, addictions, anger, relationships, grief, parenting, and related issues.

How would she approach anger in sessions?

She uses practical strategies like noticing triggers, learning DBT emotion-regulation skills, and applying CBT techniques to shift unhelpful thinking.

How much experience does she bring?

She has 20 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of concerns including trauma, mood disorders, OCD, and ADHD.

What are her credentials and location?

She is a Florida LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) based in Florida.

Does she provide services in languages other than English?

Sessions are offered in English.

Can people from other countries work with her?

She accepts international clients.

How are sessions paid for?

Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

How do I get started with her?

Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.

Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.

Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is unsafe, use the crisis numbers.

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