Kimberly Sylla, LCSW

Kimberly Sylla is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 25 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and the ripple effects of trauma. She focuses on practical steps clients can use each day and creates a calm, respectful space to talk through difficult moments. Kimberly writes and speaks plainly so families and individuals can understand options and feel heard.

She uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs rather than a single method. That can mean working on thoughts and behaviors, building emotional skills, or grounding goals in personal values. Kimberly commonly draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and client-centered work to shape each plan.

Over her career she has helped people with grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, sleep problems, ADHD, bipolar concerns, compassion fatigue, and life changes. She also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiving burden, adoption and foster care questions, body image, and sexual lifestyle concerns such as kink and BDSM. Trauma and traumatic brain injury are among the areas she lists as a focus.

Her sessions aim to be practical and straightforward. Clients can expect to learn skills for handling strong emotions, shifts in thinking that get in the way, and small experiments to test change. Kimberly takes time to understand each person’s context before suggesting tools.

She holds Pennsylvania and Connecticut LCSW credentials and practices from a perspective shaped by social work, clinical counseling, and many years of direct service. Outside work she enjoys literature, travel, and time with her son.

How Kimberly’s approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what matters to them and take small actions that align with those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where motivation or meaning feels unclear. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and experiments. It is often used for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and managing compulsive habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to reduce intense reactions and improve relationships.

Choosing the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. From there she tailors a plan that might blend ACT, CBT, DBT, and client-centered techniques so the work fits the individual’s life.

The main practical benefit of remote sessions is fitting therapy into a busy schedule. Online work can make it easier to have shorter check-ins, follow up between meetings, or attend from different locations when travel or caregiving make in-person visits hard. Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm which options are available before booking. The therapist and client then decide together how often to meet and which format best supports progress.