Beverly Hicks

Beverly Hicks is a licensed counselor and marriage and family therapist with 30 years of clinical experience in North Carolina. She helps people who are facing stress, anxiety, anger, grief, addiction, and major life changes. Her work often addresses relationship strain, intimacy concerns, parenting challenges, and recovery from trauma and abuse.

Her style is warm and collaborative. She blends practical problem-solving with attention to feelings and personal meaning. Clients can expect to talk through what’s happening now, learn coping tools, and set clear steps for change.

Beverly uses several therapeutic approaches to match the needs of each person. That can include client-centered work to clarify values, cognitive behavioral techniques to reshape unhelpful thoughts, emotionally-focused methods to deepen understanding of feelings, EMDR for trauma processing, and solution-focused strategies for short-term goals.

She also brings experience supporting people with ADHD, bipolar disorder, depression, eating concerns, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, attachment struggles, blended family concerns, caregiver stress, and chronic illness related challenges.

Beverly describes her counseling as faith-informed for those who request it and aims to respect each person’s beliefs while concentrating on practical steps. Her combined LCMHC and LMFT credentials are listed for clarity. Prospective clients should use the site matching tools to begin the process and schedule based on availability.

How these approaches guide online work

Client-Centered Therapy places the person’s experience at the center. The therapist listens closely, reflects what matters most, and helps the client clarify values and goals. This can be helpful for people feeling stuck or unsure about next steps.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions often include experimenting with new behaviors and reframing unhelpful thoughts, which can reduce anxiety, anger, and depressive symptoms.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used for processing traumatic memories. It involves structured steps to revisit difficult memories while using guided attention techniques to lessen their intensity.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, history, and preferences, then suggest methods to try. That decision is collaborative and may shift as progress is made.

For practical matters, confirm the specific session formats before booking since the profile does not list them. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Talk with the therapist during the matching process about what scheduling arrangements will work best.