About Kristen
Kristen Dewberry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 11 years of experience. She brings a warm, approachable style to sessions and aims to make difficult conversations feel manageable. Kristen often uses creativity and everyday language so clients can focus on practical next steps.
She draws on a background that includes recreational therapy, which influences how she uses expressive and activity-based ideas in sessions. That history helps when someone prefers hands-on or more playful ways to process stress and overwhelm.
Background and approach
Kristen blends those ideas with established talk therapy methods to fit each person’s needs. Kristen helps people facing anxiety, stress, workplace strain, parenting challenges, and life transitions. She also supports those coping with depression, ADHD concerns, relationship stress, and compassion fatigue.
Her work includes attention to postpartum issues, social anxiety, panic attacks, and concerns tied to adoption or caregiving. In sessions she focuses on clear goals and small, practical steps. She uses strategies from client-centered work, mindfulness, and cognitive approaches to help people notice patterns and try new responses.
Kristen aims to keep sessions direct and useful while staying warm and sometimes light-hearted. People who prefer a collaborative, down-to-earth therapist may find her style comforting. She welcomes questions about how therapy might fit into busy days and what different approaches might look like in real life.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Kristen uses Client-Centered Therapy to center the session on each person's concerns and goals. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people find their own solutions, which can be useful for anxiety, self-esteem, and parenting stress.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT involves trying small behavioral changes and testing new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and manage panic symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Kristen will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they pick methods and adjust them over time so treatment fits daily life and real challenges.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick reflections, homework check-ins, or for people who prefer writing over speaking. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, parenting, and other obligations while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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