Beverly Hicks , LCMHC, LMFT

Beverly Hicks is a licensed counselor who brings 30 years of experience to people seeking help in North Carolina. She focuses on common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and parenting concerns. Beverly also works with issues tied to intimacy, self-esteem, career change, ADHD, and trauma recovery.

Her sessions are client-centered and practical. She listens first, then helps people set clear, manageable goals. Beverly uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused work, EMDR for trauma, and solution-oriented strategies to help clients move forward.

People can expect an empathetic, down-to-earth conversation about what is causing strain and what small steps might ease it. She emphasizes collaboration, helping each person choose tools that fit their life. Sessions often include skill-building for stress management, communication, and mood regulation.

Beverly has worked across many concerns related to relationships, caregiving, adoption and foster care, aging, and medical-related stress. She also supports people dealing with complicated mood conditions, co-morbidity, and challenges tied to caregiving or cancer in the family.

Her licenses include Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, LCMHC, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT. Sessions are offered in English and provided via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging for those who prefer online formats.

Therapeutic approaches suited for online work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects feelings, and helps identify personal goals and values to guide change.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. In practice it uses short exercises, practical strategies, and homework to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress-related patterns that interfere with daily life.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and shift difficult emotional responses in relationships and within themselves. It can be useful for intimacy concerns, attachment issues, and improving communication by naming emotions and trying new interaction patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Beverly will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and comfort level, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflections between sessions. These options make scheduling and consistent care more flexible for busy lives.