About Kimberly
Kimberly "Kim" Ivester is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 24 years of experience. She works with people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, or changes in relationships and life roles. Kim listens carefully and aims to help each person find clearer thinking and steadier emotions.
Her style is warm and direct. She avoids labels and focuses on respectful, compassionate conversation. Sessions are practical and oriented around goals that matter to the client.
Background and approach
Kim combines several therapeutic approaches to match a person's needs. She uses client-centered listening to build trust. She draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and to try new coping skills.
She also brings psychodynamic ideas to help people see long-standing patterns that affect relationships and self-image. Over two decades in schools and community settings shaped her ability to support people through trauma, grief, addiction, and parenting challenges. She helps with issues like ADHD, eating and sleeping problems, codependency, and caregiver stress.
Kim works in English and offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Costs vary by location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to availability.
Approaches that guide online care
Client-centered therapy starts with careful listening and acceptance. The therapist follows the client's lead to build trust and understand what matters most, which can help when anxiety or low self-esteem make it hard to speak up.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. It uses short exercises and experiments to try new ways of thinking and acting, which can help with anxiety, sleep issues, or addictive behaviors.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then adapt methods over time. That way the work stays focused on what the client wants to change or feel differently about.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is low or a check-in needs to fit a short break. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to keep momentum between sessions or to use brief coaching-style check-ins. These formats help people fit counseling into busy lives and keep consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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