Kimberly Washington , LCSW

Kimberly Washington is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people move past emotional pain and rebuild meaningful relationships. She approaches therapy with compassion and practical tools, guiding clients through the ways past hurts, trauma, and broken relationships can affect mood, sleep, self-worth, and daily functioning. Kimberly emphasizes that carrying unresolved issues often shows up as anger, isolation, anxiety, relationship difficulties, substance use, or struggles with parenting and self-image, and she works to address those patterns so clients can pursue a healthier present and future.

She brings formal training to her work, holding a Master of Social Work in Clinical Social Work Administration from the University of Chicago (2002) and licensure as an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - in Texas (License #66601). Over her career she has focused on healing emotional and psychological wounds, offering a welcoming space for heart-to-heart conversation and reflection. Her practice includes individual and group work across settings such as substance abuse treatment, transitional living programs, child welfare contracts, and private practice.

Kimberly specializes in addictions, relationship and intimacy-related issues, self-esteem concerns, coping with life changes, family and grief work, anger management, career-related stress, and compassion fatigue. She also works with drug and alcohol addiction, infidelity, and jealousy. Using approaches such as cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic techniques, she helps clients challenge limiting beliefs, process painful experiences, and rediscover a sense of hope and renewed purpose.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with a Licensed LCSW

Kimberly often integrates cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning, and psychodynamic therapy, which explores how past experiences and unconscious patterns influence current emotions and relationships. She also draws on client-centered principles, creating a supportive, nonjudgmental space where the client's perspective and goals guide the work.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy itself, and Kimberly works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they evaluate what feels most useful and adjust the plan as progress unfolds, keeping the process responsive and client-led.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow appointments to fit into busy schedules and make ongoing work more accessible. These formats help people engage with licensed professionals and therapists from different locations, maintain continuity of care during life changes, and choose the communication style that feels most comfortable for them.