About Kimberly
Kimberly Averett is a licensed clinical social worker with more than two decades of experience. She practices in Mississippi and offers steady, practical support for people facing major life stresses. Her approach is warm and straightforward, aimed at making hard conversations easier to start.
She helps people dealing with addiction, grief, mood disorders, anxiety, and issues around self-esteem. Parenting strain, relationship concerns, and family conflict are also areas she addresses.
Background and approach
Kimberly works with people who are navigating changes like adoption, aging, chronic illness, or caregiving responsibilities. In sessions she focuses on listening first. She creates space for clients to talk through feelings and build simple steps forward.
The work often combines problem-solving, examining unhelpful thinking patterns, and telling your story in a new way to reduce its hold. Her tools draw from client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, narrative work, solution-focused strategies, and trauma-focused interventions. These are used to set short-term goals, practice new skills, and process difficult events at a pace that feels manageable.
Kimberly describes therapy as a collaborative process. She aims to support people as they develop coping skills, rebuild confidence, and make clearer choices about next steps. The first session focuses on understanding needs and laying out practical options for ongoing work.
How these approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and values. The therapist listens closely and helps clients name goals, build confidence, and make choices that fit their life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions; it teaches practical tools for changing unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors. Narrative therapy helps people revisit the stories they tell about themselves and identify alternative, more empowering ways to understand their lives.Choosing the right approach is something the therapist does together with the client. Early sessions are used to identify immediate needs, try out techniques, and decide what feels most helpful. The therapist will adjust methods based on your goals and how you respond to different tools.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let you work face to face when a deeper conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and text-based messaging offer shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or support between sessions. These options create flexibility so people can continue work even with limited time or travel constraints.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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