About Kimberly
Kimberly Averett is a licensed clinical social worker with over two decades of experience. She practices in Mississippi and has spent many years helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, and addictive behaviors. Her work is straightforward and down-to-earth.
She invites people to take the first step toward a more manageable life. Kimberly aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can say what they think and feel. She listens first and helps clients set small, practical goals.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on what is happening now and what can change next. Her approach draws on client-centered methods that prioritize each person’s values and choices. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Narrative ideas are used to put life events into clearer perspective and to rewrite painful stories. Kimberly has worked across many areas related to family and personal stress. She has experience with parenting concerns, family conflict, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver strain, aging and hospice-related matters, and gender-related concerns.
She also supports people coping with trauma, mood disorders, eating-related problems, and ADHD. Sessions are practical and collaborative. Kimberly will help a person set realistic steps and check progress along the way.
Her style is steady, compassionate, and focused on helping people move forward in everyday life.
Approach and online care that fits your life
Kimberly uses client-centered work that focuses on your values and choices. This approach means sessions begin by listening closely and letting you guide what matters most, which can help with stress, relationships, and life transitions.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. That method helps people who struggle with anxiety, low mood, or unhelpful habits by testing small changes and noticing the results.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Kimberly will talk with you about your goals and preferences and recommend techniques to try together. She checks in as you go and adjusts the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets you have a face-to-face conversation, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit a quick check-in, and messaging allows brief updates or reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi, Texas, California
- Languages
- English
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