About Kia
Dr. Kia Everett is a licensed professional counselor with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She uses straightforward, compassionate care to help clients sort through current problems and develop practical coping skills.
Her style is warm and collaborative, and she focuses on building strengths one step at a time. She combines Client-Centered work with cognitive and skills-based approaches to address intense emotions and unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
That mix helps when someone struggles with anger, low self-esteem, mood shifts, or challenges concentrating and organizing day-to-day life such as those often associated with ADHD. Sessions emphasize clear goals and tools people can use between meetings. Dr.
Everett has a broad background working with people who face grief, relationship strain, family problems, and caregiving stress. She also supports those managing trauma, compassion fatigue, first responder issues, and life changes like fertility or adoption-related concerns. Her experience includes helping people cope after natural or human-caused disasters and navigate difficult transitions.
Clients can expect a practical focus on communication and problem solving alongside emotional processing. She draws on Emotionally-Focused and Existential ideas when it helps clients make meaning of their experiences and rebuild connection to what matters. The work is paced to each person’s needs and preferences.
Dr. Everett practices in Pennsylvania and holds the LPC credential, which she uses to guide ethical and professional care. Conversations are in English and shaped around the goals each person brings to therapy.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the client, helping people feel heard and supported while they set their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior, teaching specific skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and tackle unhelpful habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation and coping strategies for intense feelings, which can be helpful for anger, mood instability, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works together with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and daily life. That collaborative planning means techniques can be adjusted over time, and sessions focus on what helps most in real life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow visual cues and a fuller conversation, while phone sessions can use less bandwidth and work well for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between meetings or to have a brief conversation when schedules are tight. These options let people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or treatment routines without extra travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Delaware
- Languages
- English
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