Kimberly Koljat

When something finally breaks through the noise — a loss that won’t lift, anxiety that’s taken up permanent residence, a sense that old patterns are running the show again — that’s often when people find Kimberly Koljat. A Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in Cleveland, Ohio, Kimberly works with individual adults and children navigating grief, anxiety, mood disorders, family-of-origin wounds, emotional abuse recovery, and the particular exhaustion of professional burnout.

Her practice draws on psychodynamic and attachment-based frameworks, drama therapy, and creative arts modalities — though she’s equally at home in straightforward talk therapy, and always follows the client’s lead. The work centers on uncovering the patterns beneath behavior: where they came from, how they’ve been running quietly in the background, and what it looks like to consciously rewrite them. For clients carrying grief especially, Kimberly brings a Certified Grief Professional lens that resists the tidy cultural script — grief, she holds, is not a five-stage fix but a real and lasting experience that can be moved through without being erased.

Kimberly sees clients in person in Cleveland and via telehealth for adults in Ohio and California. She works with female-identified adults, LGBTIQ+ individuals, highly sensitive and neurodivergent people, and those in the music industry — including children and families seen in person whose daily lives often involve navigating disconnection that shows up at the dinner table, not just in the therapy room.