About Kevin
Kevin Cooksey is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in South Carolina. He has ten years of clinical experience and combines practical skills with a straightforward style to help people facing relationship and life stressors.
He holds a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from Liberty University and a Bachelor of Science in Research Psychology from the University of South Carolina-Upstate. Kevin has completed additional coursework and certifications focused on stress, trauma care with military application, sexual addiction counseling, and trauma-focused cognitive behavioral methods for children and adolescents.
How Kevin works
He is also a SYMBIS Assessment Facilitator to support couples preparing for marriage. In sessions he favors clear, goal-oriented work. He uses client-centered conversations to understand where someone is.
He blends cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Gottman Method ideas guide his work on communication and relationship skills. Kevin helps people with a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, parenting strain, intimacy and relationship challenges, ADHD, career stress, and coping with big life changes.
He also works with issues such as forgiveness, control struggles, infidelity, and fatherhood questions. His approach is collaborative and pragmatic. He sets concrete steps and tracks progress together.
Sessions aim to leave people with clearer choices and practical tools they can use between meetings.
Kevin lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Kevin works with
The areas below are the ones Kevin selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding a person’s experience and building a supportive relationship. It helps when someone needs space to be heard and to clarify what matters most to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and uses practical exercises to change patterns that cause distress. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday problems.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist discusses a person’s goals and preferences and then suggests options. Together they try methods that match the issue and adjust as progress is tracked over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face from wherever they are, phone sessions can fit a short break at work or require less bandwidth, and live chat or messaging suits quick check-ins and ongoing support between sessions. These formats make scheduling easier and help people keep therapy consistent with busy lives.
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