About Kimberly
Kimberly "Kim" Ivester is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and everyday challenges. She brings 24 years of experience and a calm, respectful manner to each session. Kim aims to make therapy feel approachable and practical for people who are feeling stuck or overwhelmed.
She listens carefully to each person's story before suggesting steps forward. Sessions center on clear goals and small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Kim uses straightforward tools to address mood, sleep, relationships, and work or school concerns. Her work draws on several therapy styles to fit different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Psychodynamic ideas can uncover repeated patterns from earlier relationships. Client-centered techniques keep the person’s experiences and choices central. Kim has supported people through trauma, grief, addiction concerns, and parenting stress.
She also helps with attention challenges, body image worries, and career-related decisions. The focus is on building coping skills, improving communication, and restoring a sense of direction. Sessions are collaborative and paced to fit the person’s goals.
Kim avoids labels that shame and encourages practical steps toward better sleep, healthier routines, and stronger relationships. She aims to help people regain confidence and move toward a more balanced life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Kim combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy to help people make practical changes and feel heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change habits. Client-Centered Therapy prioritizes the person’s experience and choices, building a respectful space to talk through relationship issues, self-esteem concerns, and life transitions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Kim will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. Decisions about pace and focus are made collaboratively and can shift as needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and text messaging supports shorter ongoing coaching and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving routines while maintaining continuity of care.
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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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