About Kimberley
Kimberley Rodriguez-Lepp is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Florida with 25 years of experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship problems.
Background and approach
Her work centers on clear, respectful conversation and steady support. She uses a mix of approaches to fit each person's needs.
That can mean learning new ways to handle upsetting thoughts, practicing clearer communication, or finding values that guide choices. Sessions are direct and rooted in everyday life rather than jargon.
Her background includes long-term work with people facing trauma, sleep problems, self-esteem struggles, and parenting strain. She also helps with issues related to adoption and foster care, aging concerns, chronic illness, and caregiver stress.
Those topics often come with overlapping challenges, and she pulls from different methods to address them. Kimberley emphasizes building practical skills.
Clients may practice emotion management, change unhelpful thinking, or try small behavioral experiments between sessions. The goal is steady progress that fits into a busy life.
She creates a warm, inclusive space for a wide range of experiences and identities. People who come to her often want straightforward guidance, clearer relationships, or relief from persistent worries.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small, guided steps toward those values. It’s useful when worry or avoidance keeps someone from living the life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. It often involves short between-session exercises to practice skills. Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and day-to-day constraints. From there she tailors methods so they fit the person's life and comfort level rather than forcing one way of working. Online formats make attending therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief check-ins, quick support, or people who find writing easier than talking. These options help therapy fit into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English