Kimberly Sullivan, LMFT

Kimberly Sullivan is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California with over 20 years of professional experience. She brings practical, focused work to sessions and emphasizes helping people cope with life changes, midlife concerns, stress, and relationship struggles.

She learned the TEAM CBT model and has continued training and consultation to refine her use of its methods. In sessions she uses targeted interventions to address depression, anxiety, habits, and relationship patterns. Her style is direct and action-oriented, with attention to what people can do between appointments.

Kimberly connects clinical work to everyday life. She draws on experiences from animal work and long involvement with horses and martial arts to describe resilience, discipline, and routine. She also works with issues such as grief, trauma, self-esteem, parenting strain, and career transitions.

Clients can expect goal-focused sessions that break problems into manageable steps. Kimberly emphasizes practical strategies for impulsivity, sleep and eating problems, ADHD-related struggles, and compassion fatigue. She pays attention to attachment and abandonment themes when those issues are present.

Outside the therapy room she trains two rescue dogs and maintains martial arts practice. Those interests influence how she explains behavior change, practice, and progress in therapy.

How Kimberly Uses Evidence-Informed Methods Online

Kimberly practices an evidence-informed form of TEAM CBT, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises. This approach aims to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression by changing thought patterns and behaviors through structured techniques.

She also uses behavioral techniques that focus on building habits and routines. These methods help with sleep and eating problems, impulsivity, chronic pain coping, and ADHD-related challenges by breaking changes into small, repeatable steps and tracking progress.

Choosing the right approach is treated as a collaboration. Kimberly works with each person to match methods to their goals, values, and what feels doable in day-to-day life. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps most and welcomes client feedback throughout the process.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so please confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow more flexible timing for short check-ins or full sessions. It can also make it simpler to continue work through life changes while maintaining regular contact with a licensed professional.