About Kimberly
Kimberly Nasrul is a licensed marriage and family therapist in California with 22 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles.
Background and approach
Her work often focuses on concerns like panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and caregiver strain. She pays close attention to women's specific life pressures, including self-worth, communication challenges, isolation, and workplace stress.
Sessions are meant to be a place to talk through pain, sort out confusing feelings, and slowly build more steady ways of coping. Kimberly uses practical steps and listening to guide people toward clearer next actions.
People come to her when life feels overwhelming or directionless - for example during midlife shifts, after loss, or through lingering effects of past abuse. She also supports those managing chronic illness or ongoing health-related stressors.
Her approach balances emotional understanding with concrete strategies to lessen day-to-day strain. Clients report working on communication skills, reducing panic symptoms, and finding steadier mood routines.
The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes, with attention to each person’s values and life context. Kimberly frames therapy as a collaborative process where goals are set together and adjusted as needed.
Her practice blends a trauma-aware stance with long experience helping adults rebuild meaning, confidence, and connection. Sessions aim to help people feel more capable of handling stress, make clearer choices, and live with more ease.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Kimberly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on stabilizing symptoms and rebuilding daily routines. One common approach she employs helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with clearer, balanced thinking to reduce anxiety and low mood. This method is useful for panic attacks, persistent worry, and mood disorders.Another frequent focus is trauma-informed care, which helps people process painful memories and learn ways to feel safer in day-to-day life. This approach aims to reduce intense reactions and improve coping after abuse, accidents, or other traumatic events.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kimberly collaborates with each person to choose and adjust techniques based on their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly to see what is helping and what to change so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is often used for deeper conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can fit quick check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to schedule care around work, caregiving, and medical needs while keeping therapy consistent and accessible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English