Kimbalie (Kim) Commissiong, LCSW

Kimbalie (Kim) Commissiong is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Florida with two decades of professional experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma, and mood-related challenges. She earned a Master of Social Work from Barry University in Miami in 2000 and has spent her career helping clients navigate major life transitions such as divorce, loss, and disability while addressing symptoms of depression, sleep difficulties, and relationship strain.

Her counseling approach is warm, interactive, and non-judgmental, focusing on each person’s strengths as a foundation for change. Kimbalie integrates evidence-based methods including solution-focused strategies, cognitive behavioral techniques, and motivational approaches, along with compassion-centered work, to create practical, goal-oriented plans. She adapts communication and treatment to match individual needs and preferences, whether the focus is coping with trauma, working through family or parenting issues, managing ADHD or bipolar concerns, or improving self-esteem and life purpose.

Kimbalie encourages clients who are ready to pursue a more fulfilling and resilient life and offers support to empower meaningful steps forward. She welcomes working with diverse clients, including international individuals, and aims to tailor therapy so it fits each person’s circumstances and goals.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with Licensed Professionals

Kimbalie (Kim) Commissiong uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop practical skills for changing behaviors and moods. CBT is often applied for anxiety, depression, sleep challenges, and stress management by teaching concrete tools to shift daily reactions.

She also employs Motivational Interviewing, a collaborative, client-centered style that focuses on strengthening personal motivation and commitment to change. This approach can be helpful when clients face ambivalence about life changes, recovery, or new routines.

Solution-Focused Therapy is another staple of her work and emphasizes building on existing strengths to set achievable goals and create small, measurable steps toward improvement. It is particularly useful for addressing relationship concerns, parenting challenges, and transitions.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey. Kimbalie works collaboratively with clients and licensed professionals to tailor methods based on each person’s needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting strategies as progress unfolds.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions may be conducted by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit care into busy schedules, connect across distances, and maintain continuity of support from skilled therapists.