Kristen Dewberry
Compassionate, practical support for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Kristen
Kristen Dewberry is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 11 years of experience. She brings a background in recreational therapy to sessions, which adds creative and expressive tools to traditional talk therapy. Her style is warm and genuine, with a touch of humor when it fits.
Kristen aims to make the first steps toward support feel manageable and straightforward. She uses practical, down-to-earth methods so people can notice small changes fast.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and tools for day-to-day life. Kristen blends Client-Centered Therapy with cognitive techniques to help people challenge unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. Mindfulness practices are offered to help manage stress, anxiety, and strong emotions.
Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy are used to clarify values and identify concrete next steps. These approaches are presented plainly and tailored to each person’s pace. Kristen has particular interest in topics such as parenting challenges, ADHD awareness, compassion fatigue, and life transitions.
She also supports people dealing with workplace stress, body image concerns, postpartum changes, and caregiver strain. Her prior experience with recreational therapy informs creative ways to engage in the work. Sessions are conducted in English and held from North Carolina.
Kristen encourages questions and aims to make scheduling straightforward. She frames therapy as a partnership and helps people find the tools that fit their lives.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and meeting each person where they are. It emphasizes empathy and supporting the client’s own goals, which works well for people who want a safe, nonjudgmental space to sort through decisions and feelings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and test new ways of thinking and acting. It is practical and skills-based, often used for anxiety, depression, and managing stress in daily life.
Mindfulness Therapy offers simple practices to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept away by them. These techniques can reduce stress, improve emotion regulation, and help with overwhelm.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Kristen will collaborate with clients to decide which methods fit best based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. She adjusts strategies over time and checks in regularly to see what helps.
Online therapy provides flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options allow people to connect from home, fit sessions into busy schedules, and access different ways of communicating. The variety of formats makes it easier to keep therapy consistent while adapting to real life.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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