About Kia
Dr. Kia Everett focuses on practical, person-centered therapy. She uses straightforward talk and active listening to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and self-esteem concerns.
Her style is calm and steady, and she aims to help clients build skills they can use day to day. With 30 years of experience as an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor), she draws on a range of approaches that match each person's needs. Sessions often include problem-solving, emotion skills, and checking how patterns at home or work affect mood.
Background and approach
She helps people sort out relationship troubles, grief, intimacy issues, and big life changes. Her background includes long-term work with clients facing complicated stressors such as first responder issues, caregiver strain, adoption and foster care challenges, and fertility or hospice concerns. She also addresses trauma, domestic violence histories, and complications of bipolar disorder when they arise in therapy.
Practical tools are part of the work - skills for managing anger, building communication, coping strategies for ADHD, and steps to rebuild trust after infidelity. She uses cognitive and emotion-focused techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and to strengthen emotional connection and regulation. Sessions are collaborative and goal oriented.
Dr. Everett helps people set clear, manageable goals and tracks progress over time. The aim is steady improvement in everyday life rather than quick fixes.
Practical approaches for online healing and skills building
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people find their own solutions. Sessions are built around the person's values and goals, which helps with self-esteem, life changes, and relationship questions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches concrete tools to change unhelpful thinking and to build coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers practical emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills. It can be useful for anger, intense emotions, and improving communication in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist and client review goals and try methods that match needs and preferences. This collaborative process lets the plan shift over time as progress is made.
Online sessions can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and real-time skill practice. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat or messaging supports brief check-ins, between-session coaching, or people who prefer writing instead of talking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and to keep consistent momentum.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Delaware
- Languages
- English