About Kimberly
Kimberly Averett is a licensed clinical social worker with more than two decades of practice in Mississippi. She brings 23 years of professional experience to conversations about stress, grief, depression, and addiction. She speaks plainly and focuses on helping people take practical first steps toward feeling better.
She creates a calm space where people can say what they’re thinking and feeling without judgment. Sessions tend to be collaborative and down-to-earth, with an emphasis on immediate concerns and workable steps.
Background and approach
Kimberly helps people identify small changes that can reduce overwhelm and improve daily routines. Her background includes work with relationship strain, parenting challenges, LGBT-related concerns, and trauma and abuse. She also supports people navigating eating issues, self-esteem struggles, and compassion fatigue from caregiving roles.
ADHD is listed among her areas of focus as part of broader attention and coping concerns. Kimberly uses approaches that match each person’s needs, such as client-centered conversations that follow the person’s priorities, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful patterns, and narrative work to reframe difficult stories. She adapts methods to the problem at hand and the person in the room.
Her style is practical and respectful. She helps people set realistic goals and track small gains. For many, that means working on clearer routines, healthier responses to stress, and better communication with loved ones.
Approaches that fit your life and schedule
Kimberly commonly blends client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to address everyday problems and mood concerns. Client-centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person’s priorities, which helps people feel heard and decide what to work on first. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings and teaches practical strategies for changing unhelpful patterns.She also uses Narrative Therapy to help people rethink stressful life stories and separate themselves from problems that feel overwhelming. That kind of work can be useful for grief, identity questions, and long-standing patterns that cause pain. Kimberly treats finding the right approach as a team effort and will discuss options to see what fits a person’s goals and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what works best for them. Video calls allow fuller conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and to get brief support between longer sessions.
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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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