Kim Villarreal, LICSW, LCSW

Kim Villarreal is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Texas. She brings a decade of experience as a licensed social worker and focuses on supporting people through stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. Kim speaks English and Spanish and encourages people to take the first step when they are ready.

Her approach centers on creating a straightforward, nonjudgmental space where clients can say what they feel. She uses practical methods that help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different ways of responding. Sessions are collaborative and aim to find what works for each person’s day-to-day life.

Kim draws from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Existential Therapy. Those approaches inform concrete skills for anxiety, mood swings, and coping with chronic illness or caregiving stress. She also supports people facing relationship and intimacy concerns and those managing addiction or compassion fatigue.

People who come to Kim may be dealing with parenting strain, adoption and foster care questions, attachment difficulties, or changes related to aging and chronic health conditions. She also helps with anger, self-esteem, career concerns, and navigating divorce or separation. Her style is calm, direct, and focused on small, doable steps.

Kim aims to help clients shift perspectives and build practical tools. She invites those who are ready to begin to take the next step toward clearer thinking and manageable routines.

How therapeutic approaches guide online care

Kim uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shape online work in straightforward ways. ACT helps people notice thoughts and values, so they can act toward what matters even when feelings are hard. CBT focuses on identifying patterns of thinking and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and low mood.

She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, listening-based relationship. That approach emphasizes empathy and collaboration so clients feel heard while they try new coping strategies. Together these methods support practical steps for stress, grief, chronic illness, and caregiving strain.

Finding the right approach is part of the process, and the therapist will work with clients to decide what fits their needs and goals. This conversation considers what someone wants to change, how they prefer to work, and which techniques feel most useful in daily life.

The therapist's original profile does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm current options before booking. Online care can make it easier to fit sessions into a week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so therapy fits around work, medical appointments, or caregiving duties.