About Kimberly
Kimberly "Kim" Ivester is a licensed professional counselor in Georgia with 24 years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship strain, and life changes. Her manner is warm and direct, and she aims to treat each person with respect and compassion.
Kim works in clear, practical ways. She listens first, then helps clients notice how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to build coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on small steps that fit into daily life. Her background includes work in community and school settings, which shaped a flexible approach to different needs. She has supported people coping with trauma, abuse, grief, and addiction concerns.
She also helps with career transitions, parenting stress, and problems with sleep or eating. Kim blends longer-term reflection with focused problem-solving. That can mean looking at patterns from the past and also testing new behaviors in the present.
The pace and goals are set with each person, not prescribed in advance. She provides sessions in English and offers multiple online formats to fit busy schedules. If someone wants a therapist who listens without judgment and helps translate insight into doable steps, Kim can be a steady guide.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on active listening and collaboration; the therapist follows the client's lead and helps clarify goals and values, which can be useful for people feeling stuck or uncertain about next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful thought and behavior patterns through practical exercises and homework, and it often helps with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and sleep or eating concerns. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which many people find useful for stress and attention challenges.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That collaborative process includes trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for a full session with visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or when typing is easier, and text allows brief support throughout the week. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, school, or caregiving duties while keeping therapy practical and consistent.
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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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