About Kimberly
Kimberly Mendoza is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who brings ten years of practice to her work in Florida. She frames therapy around the person in front of her and uses curiosity to help uncover what’s already inside the client. Her approach is direct and compassionate, and she helps people sort through anxiety, depression, stress, and major life changes.
She prefers clear, straightforward conversations and believes clients are the experts on their own lives.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on finding practical skills and habits that fit daily life. Kimberly combines active listening with problem-solving to make progress feel manageable. Her training includes study in psychology and neuroscience and a graduate degree from Rollins College in Florida.
Over the past decade she has worked with adults across a wide age range and has developed experience with mood concerns, attention differences, addiction-related struggles, and issues tied to identity and intimacy. Kimberly uses several evidence-informed approaches, choosing techniques that match each person’s needs.
She draws from acceptance and commitment work, attachment-focused ideas, cognitive behavior strategies, and skills-based methods to help people manage emotions and change unhelpful patterns. Sessions are available in multiple online formats including video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging. People start by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to the therapist’s calendar.
Kimberly offers ongoing messaging between sessions to support moment-to-moment needs.
How Kimberly’s Approaches Translate Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take values-based action. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where people want clearer direction.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns in close relationships and how past connections shape current behavior. It helps people understand intimacy, abandonment concerns, and attachment-related struggles by exploring how they connect and respond to others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kimberly will collaborate with each person to pick strategies that fit their goals and comfort level. She adapts methods over time based on what is helping and what isn’t, so therapy feels tailored rather than rigid.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work, phone can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth, and messaging supports brief check-ins and ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options provide flexibility so people can use the format that best fits their schedule and needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English