Kimberley Slown, LCSW
Compassionate somatic-informed therapy for everyday struggles
About Kimberley
Kimberley Slown is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of practice in Tennessee. She focuses on somatic approaches alongside talk-based work to help people feel steadier in their bodies and minds. Kimberley aims to create a calm space where clients can speak openly and begin to reduce symptoms that get in the way of daily life.
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma and abuse. Her work also addresses ADHD, addictions, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns.
Background and approach
Kimberley supports people dealing with parenting strain, sleep or eating problems, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue. Her practice pays attention to attachment patterns and how early relationships shape current reactions. She uses client-centered methods to align sessions with each person’s needs and goals.
Cognitive behavioral strategies and skills drawn from dialectical behavior approaches are used to help with thinking patterns and emotional regulation. Kimberley has additional focus in areas such as abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, blended family stress, caregiving strain, chronic pain or illness, codependency, and recovery from domestic violence or separation.
She works with concerns around body image, communication and control issues, and aging-related adjustments. Sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Conversations begin with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling is arranged after that step.
How somatic and skills-based approaches work online
Somatic-informed work focuses on noticing body sensations and gentle movement or breathing to help reduce stress and reactivity. It can help people who feel stuck by reconnecting sensations with calmer responses rather than only talking about feelings.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns from early relationships and how they show up now in trust, closeness, and conflict. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the person’s own goals and pace, with the therapist following the client’s lead and offering empathetic support.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to choose which methods fit their needs and goals, and will adjust that plan as progress is made.
Online sessions via video or phone allow live conversation similar to an in-person visit, while live chat and text messaging offer more flexible, shorter check-ins. These options let people fit therapy around work, family, and other commitments and can make regular contact easier when life is busy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English