About Kia
Dr. Kia Everett is a licensed professional counselor with 30 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and self-esteem struggles. She practices in Pennsylvania and brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions.
Her approach focuses on listening and building practical steps people can use between appointments. She uses client-centered methods to make space for each person's story. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps her clients spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
How Kia works
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are used when people need tools for emotion regulation and coping with intense feelings. Her background includes long experience supporting people facing grief, caregiving strain, compassion fatigue, and work-related stress. She also helps with relationship issues, intimacy-related concerns, and communication problems.
Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care, autism and Asperger syndrome, blended family issues, and fertility-related stress. Dr. Everett has worked with people affected by domestic violence, first responder issues, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and trauma from disasters.
She aims to help clients build resilience and clearer decision-making. Sessions emphasize small, doable practices that move daily life forward. People who come to her can expect a collaborative process.
She blends emotion-focused work with practical skill-building. Over her career she has developed a flexible toolkit to address both crisis moments and longer-term growth.
Kia lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Kia works with
The areas below are the ones Kia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard and decide on goals that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and uses simple experiments and exercises to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when feelings run high.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Dr. Everett will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can change over time as issues shift or new problems arise, and she adjusts the plan together with the client.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow a face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or when written reflection helps. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain regular contact between sessions.
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