Beverly Hicks, LCMHC, LMFT

Beverly Hicks, LCMHC, LMFT brings 30 years of experience to people facing stress, anxiety, life changes, grief, and addiction. She practices in North Carolina and offers faith-informed counseling that respects each person's story. Beverly aims to help people find steady ground during hard times and make practical changes that last.

Her sessions focus on clear listening and practical tools. She helps people manage anxiety, cope with transitions, and recover from trauma and abuse. She also supports concerns like relationship and intimacy struggles, parenting stress, caregiver strain, and issues tied to aging and geriatric challenges.

Beverly combines client-centered conversations with goal-focused techniques. She uses approaches such as cognitive behavioral work to change unhelpful patterns, emotionally-focused ideas to improve connection, and EMDR for trauma processing when appropriate. Solution-focused steps help people move forward between sessions.

Her style is steady and faith-informed, with an emphasis on empowerment and respect. Sessions often include skills practice, reflective dialogue, and steps to try in everyday life. Beverly encourages a collaborative pace so people feel involved in planning their care.

For practical concerns she addresses career stress, ADHD, bipolar and depressive symptoms, eating and intimacy-related issues, and challenges tied to adoption, foster care, or blended family dynamics. She also helps those coping with cancer, grief, compassion fatigue, and co-occurring conditions. To begin, follow the site's Start Therapy flow and complete the matching questionnaire.

How Beverly’s approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person without judgment. It helps people feel heard and clarifies goals for change, which can work well in teletherapy conversations where reflective listening guides the session.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online sessions can include homework, thought records, and behavior experiments that a person practices between meetings to see measurable improvement.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and shift emotional responses that affect relationships and self-understanding. In virtual sessions the therapist helps name feelings, try new responses, and rehearse different ways of connecting or coping.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Beverly works collaboratively to decide which method or mix of methods fits a person's needs, goals, and preferences. She will review options and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make scheduling easier, reduce travel time, and allow short check-ins between in-person visits. It can also let people use a session when they have limited time, need a lower-bandwidth option, or want to focus on skills practice between meetings. Licensed professionals can adapt these methods to fit everyday life and practical concerns.