This is YOUR JOURNEY and YOU DESERVE specialized support …Are you having trouble functioning in your environment while experiencing unproductive thoughts/feelings/actions? Are your emotions working against you; controlling you, keeping you from experiencing the relationships and the life that you want for yourself? Are you trapped inside your mental health diagnosis? So many mental health challenges are rooted in past events and in fears of the future. How would you feel if past events didn't have a hold on your thoughts/feelings/actions in a negative way? How would it feel to be in charge of your responses to thoughts and feelings? I work with folks experiencing mild to moderate mental health challenges. My approach to therapy is individualized to you, as I utilize interventions from multiple theoretical orientations to fit your desired outcomes. I provide an emotionally safe space for sharing your truth. Let me sit beside you as you journey to yourself. I graduated from CSU, Sacramento with my Master of Social Work and from UC, Davis with my Bachelor's in Psychology.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
I can help you discover ways to feel more in charge of your thoughts, feelings, and actions. You can learn to allow your emotions to provide you with productive feedback, for navigating your relationships and environment the way you want to. I can guide you towards living the life you choose, instead of the life you feel stuck in.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
My approach is a whole body approach to help you bring your thoughts, emotions, and body into balance for learning new ways to process incoming information from your environment and respond in ways that serve the life you want, instead of automatic responses that do not serve the life you want to live.
About Kimberlie Nunley
Kimberlie Nunley offers therapy covered by Health Plan of San Joaquin - Medi-Cal in California.
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Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
I specialize in CBT, Cognitive Behavioral Theory, for changing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that may keep you from your happiness. We will work towards changing automatic undesired thoughts, feelings, and behaviors into chosen thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that move you closer to the life you want for yourself. I utilize interventions for ACT for learning acceptance in the present and making decisions that support your personal values; Psychodynamic theory for processing past difficult experiences that continue to impede your life function today; Mindfulness for learning that your thoughts and emotions are information that can support the life you want for yourself, instead of holding onto thoughts and feelings tethered to the past, and worries and fears for future events that haven't happened; Somatic interventions to understand your nervous system body responses to your environment.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy
I compliment my CBT interventions with mindfulness interventions the emphasize allowing the brain to focus on the present moment instead of worrying about the past and future, as anxiety and depression are commonly rooted in fears and worries of past events that we cannot change and worries of potential future events that have not occurred.
Somatic
I include somatic awareness of how the body's feelings/sensations are an important element of our experiences and how understanding and identifying individual somatic reactions to events can grow a brain-body connection for retraining the nervous system to respond in ways that better serve the life one wants for themself, instead of the experience of automatic fight/flight/freeze reactions that are not appropriate to the immediate event when one's cognitive part of the brain knows that there is no need to feel unsafe in the moment.
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic interventions can help one understand how past experiences have shaped current automatic unwanted reactions to events. Identifying and learning about individual patterns of automatic defensiveness can help one to change unwanted defensive patterns that do not serve the life that one wants for themself.