Ms. Kimberly Roelands is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who has been counseling children, adolescents, adults, and families for the past 10 years. She has worked with children and adults from varied cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. In past years, she worked as a School Counselor at Del Oro High School in Loomis, CA, Student Support Specialist at San Jose Unified School District, and Wellness Coordinator at Santa Clara Unified School District. Ms. Roelands understands that there are many paths to wellness and fulfillment. Each individual must find their way to self-awareness. Her work is to facilitate their learning, understanding and guide them toward their stated goals for change. She is committed to helping people overcome life challenges so that they may live as fulfilled a life as possible. She has a firm belief that everyone possesses the inherent strength and ability needed to reach their full potential if given compassion, patience, and support. Her educational background includes an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. and a B.A. in Anthropology, Cultural Emphasis from the University of California, Berkeley, CA.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In our first session together, after introductions, we will cover confidentiality and consent along with understanding what brings you to therapy.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
CBT is used as a base from which to explore how someone perceives what is happening to them when situations or events occur that create an emotional disturbance. This work involved Identification of what thoughts triggered the emotional response and how self-talk either escalates or de-escalates that response. The use of CBT is but a small part of creating self-awareness. The work starts from there by understanding how someone is coping with triggers and identifying alternate responses to those behaviors. The strengths used in this work include empathic listening skills, a curiosity about each person's life situation and life experience, combined with an understanding of our human nature.
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
I work with demographically diverse clients of ages from 16 to end of life.
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Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) is a one type of short-term, problem-focused therapy, which has been successfully used with a number of psychological and emotional problems, including depression, anxiety and addictive behaviors, over the last 20-30 years. CBT aims to help clients identify and change thinking and behavior patterns that cause distress. Thoughts play a major role in the emotional and behavioral problems experienced by individuals. While situations (a friend not returning a telephone call) can elicit some feelings (irritation or anxiety), the way we think about this situation (“Something is wrong” or “This person doesn’t care”) can make the emotional reaction more severe or intense. Behaviors can also be part of the problem. For example, if the individual, who is feeling bad waiting for a return call from a friend, calls repeatedly leaving angry messages for the other person, it is likely the situation will be made worse. Exploring the connection between situations, thoughts, feelings and behavior will be helpful in revealing maladaptive thinking or behavioral patterns, which can then be changed leading to less emotional distress.