Beverly Hicks, LCMHC, LMFT

Beverly Hicks is a licensed therapist with 30 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and major life changes. She works with adults on relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting worries, and career decisions. Beverly uses straightforward guidance and steady support to help people find practical ways forward.

Her sessions are warm and collaborative. She listens first, then helps people set clear goals. She combines problem-solving with attention to emotions so clients can both think through choices and feel understood.

Beverly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills. She also uses Client-Centered techniques to keep the conversation focused on each person's values and pace. For people recovering from trauma, she offers trauma-focused tools including EMDR when appropriate.

Over her career she has worked across many concerns such as addiction, bipolar disorder, eating issues, ADHD, and caregiving stress. She also supports people dealing with adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric concerns, attachment challenges, and blended family adjustments.

Beverly holds licensure as a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, LCMHC, and as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT. She practices in North Carolina and conducts sessions in English. She aims to make therapy practical and relevant to everyday life.

How Beverly’s approaches work online

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. Online CBT can help people reduce anxiety, manage mood, and build routines through structured exercises and homework.

Client-Centered Therapy centers the session around the person's goals and experience. The therapist follows the client's pace and offers empathy and reflection to help people gain clarity and self-acceptance.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at patterns in how people connect and respond to emotions. It can be useful for addressing intimacy-related stress and improving emotional awareness.

Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Beverly will discuss goals, try methods, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. The first sessions often focus on listening, setting priorities, and picking practical steps to try together.

Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone calls are low bandwidth and simple to join, live chat is good for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy easier to fit around work, caregiving, and daily responsibilities.