About Kim
Kim Cooper is a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 20 years of practice in Mississippi. She offers calm, practical support for people facing pain and change. Her style is straightforward and caring, and she aims to make conversations feel useful from the first session.
Kim focuses on relationship repair, improving communication, and rebuilding emotional closeness between partners. She also helps family members and loved ones who are coping with a relative's addiction.
Background and approach
Grief and loss are areas she has guided people through across many years of work. Her sessions are tailored to each person. She listens first, then helps set clear goals and simple steps to move forward.
Kim uses approaches that emphasize personal strengths, practical skills, and guided reflection to reduce stress and improve daily functioning. Clients who come for help with anxiety, depression, anger, or trauma find her approach grounded and goal-oriented. She also supports people dealing with life transitions, career questions, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and end-of-life concerns.
Cultural background and life stage are taken into account when planning care. Kim works in a respectful, nonjudgmental way. She encourages honest conversation and gradual change.
Her aim is to help people feel more capable, less overwhelmed, and better equipped to handle the challenges they face.
Approaches that guide online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust so clients can explore what matters most. It helps people clarify values, make decisions, and feel heard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without acting on it.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Kim will work with each person to see which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they can try strategies, note what helps, and adjust the plan so sessions stay focused and relevant.
Online therapy offers several flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people meet face-to-face when schedule or travel make in-person sessions difficult. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be a good option for a focused check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter, ongoing support possible between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work during transitions or caregiving demands.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English