Demetrius King , LPC, LPCC

Demetrius King is a licensed counselor based in Tennessee with 14 years of professional experience helping people navigate life transitions and painful emotions. She combines practical coaching skills with clinical training to support clients facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, intimacy-related struggles, anger, self-esteem concerns, career questions, and compassion fatigue. As a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) she draws on evidence-informed approaches to tailor a treatment plan to each person's unique needs and goals.

Known for a respectful, sensitive, and compassionate style, she frames therapy as a collaborative process that can include life-coaching elements such as career planning and skill development. Her work often addresses complex relational themes like attachment, abandonment, blended family dynamics, communication difficulties, and codependency, as well as practical caregiving and aging concerns. Whether the focus is coping with loss, reducing substance use, repairing intimacy, or building healthier coping strategies, she aims to empower clients to take courageous steps toward a more fulfilling life.

Demetrius adapts her dialog and interventions to fit each client's preferences and circumstances, offering structured skills when helpful and an empathic, client-centered stance to explore deeper patterns and meaning. She is accepting new clients and provides therapy in English.

Therapeutic Approaches and Convenient Online Care

Demetrius King integrates Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) into her online practice. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people repair and strengthen connections, which is useful for intimacy-related issues, abandonment concerns, and blended family challenges. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathy and respect, giving clients a supportive space to explore feelings and values while shaping goals at their own pace - this approach is often helpful for grief, self-esteem, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and building practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and address depression or addictive patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and she works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. The therapist adapts interventions over time as progress and priorities evolve.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - so clients can fit sessions into busy lives, access support from home, and maintain continuity of care during life changes. This range of options makes it easier to receive consistent, licensed professional help in ways that suit individual schedules and comfort levels.