About Kristen
Kristen Dewberry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with eleven years of professional experience. She combines clinical skills with a background in recreational therapy to bring creative ideas into sessions. Kristen aims to make the first steps toward support feel manageable and straightforward.
Her manner is warm and direct, with a touch of humor to ease tense moments. Kristen focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, anger, and depression.
Background and approach
She also helps people who are navigating parenting, career questions, relationship concerns, and life changes. She pays special attention to women moving through pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period, and she supports people learning to understand ADHD symptoms. Sessions often include hands-on, practical strategies that people can try between meetings.
Kristen uses straightforward cognitive tools and collaborative problem solving to break larger problems into doable steps. She also draws on mindfulness practices to help manage worry and bring attention back to what matters in daily life. Her background in recreational therapy means she sometimes suggests creative or expressive activities to help people name feelings and build new habits.
Kristen describes her style as client-centered and goal oriented, so the work is driven by each person’s needs. She encourages questions and keeps the pace aligned with what the client says they can handle. Kristen practices in North Carolina and offers sessions in English.
She aims to be practical, approachable, and focused on helping each person move toward clearer choices and steadier days.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Kristen uses Client-Centered Therapy to follow each person's lead and build sessions around what feels most relevant. That approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and shaping work around individual goals. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which breaks down unhelpful thoughts and behaviors into concrete steps and skills people can practice between sessions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Kristen works with clients to identify goals, tries different strategies, and adjusts the plan based on what helps most. She invites feedback and checks in regularly to make sure the work matches a client's needs and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into busy days. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversations and guided exercises, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can support shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it possible to continue therapeutic work across schedules and locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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