Kimberly Sheffield, MSW

You've spent your whole life feeling like you were built for a world that wasn't quite built for you.​

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I am a Registered Clinical Social Worker Intern (RCSWI) working towards licensure in Florida. I work with neurodivergent adolescents, adults, and couples: the ones who feel everything deeply but struggle to be understood. Who have masked so long they have lost touch with who they are underneath. Who have sat across from therapists, done the work, read the books, and still walked away feeling like the real thing never quite got said.

This is the first place you won't have to translate yourself.

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My work is body-based and creative, grounded in the belief that some things live too deep for words, and that real healing happens not when you finally explain yourself perfectly, but when your nervous system finally feels safe enough to let something go. There is no performing here. No pressure to make eye contact, fill silence, or arrive with the right language. Just your body, your breath, and a space that was genuinely built for how your nervous system works.

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Some of the modalities I incorporate in my sessions:

Art-Based Healing

For many neurodivergent clients, art becomes the first honest language they've ever had: a place where the inner world finally gets a channel that doesn't require translation. If the idea of sitting across from someone and talking about your feelings has always felt exhausting or impossible, this is why art changes things. We use simple materials like drawing, painting, collage, imagery; not to create something beautiful, but to give what's inside somewhere to go. Nothing needs to be explained or interpreted unless you want it to be. No artistic experience needed. No right or wrong. Just what shows up when you finally have a safe place to put it.

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Somatic Therapy & EFT Tapping

Body-based work that goes beneath thoughts and directly into the nervous system, where rejection sensitivity, emotional dysregulation, sensory overload, and the accumulated weight of years of masking actually live. If you have ever understood exactly why you react the way you do and still couldn't stop it, this is why. Insight alone doesn't reach the alarm system. Somatic therapy and EFT tapping work directly with the body's signals, teaching your nervous system through experience that it's safe now. Concrete, repeatable, and gentle, even on the hardest days.

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Internal Family Systems (IFS)

A compassionate, parts-based approach that helps you understand your inner world with curiosity rather than judgement. For neurodivergent clients especially, IFS is often the first framework that makes everything finally make sense: the part that shuts down in social situations, the part that feels devastated by rejection, the part that has been performing okay-ness for years. We don't try to get rid of any of them. We get curious about what they have been carrying and help them finally feel safe enough to rest. If you have ever felt like different situations bring out completely different versions of you, this work was made for that.

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Gottman Method Couples Therapy

For couples (including neurodivergent and mixed neurotype relationships) where communication differences, sensory needs, and the impact of years of masking have created distance neither partner intended. If you've ever felt like you and your partner are speaking completely different emotional languages, this work helps bridge that gap. Gottman Method is research-based and practical, focused on the patterns underneath conflict rather than who is right or wrong. A space where both people finally feel safe enough to be fully themselves, and understood by each other.

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Ongoing Trainings & Certifications

Neurodivergent Affirming Practice, 2026

Art Healing Certification, 2026

Somatic Embodiment & Regulation, 2026

Trauma Focused CBT, 2025

Narcissistic Abuse and Gaslighting Treatment, 2025

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) and Tapping, 2025

Gottman Level 1 Certification, 2025