About Audra
Audra Vance is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 27 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and depression. Her approach is steady and compassionate, aimed at practical change rather than jargon.
She begins by listening and learning what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on identifying strengths and building skills.
Background and approach
Clients practice strategies for managing emotions, solving problems, and setting healthier boundaries. Audra mixes several therapy approaches to match each person's needs. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people live by their values.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are part of her work too. Mindfulness supports noticing thoughts and feelings without getting swept away.
Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and stay motivated. She aims to create a respectful, goal-focused relationship. Together with clients she sets realistic goals and practices skills that fit daily life.
The focus is on usable tools that make everyday situations easier to manage. Audra provides services from North Carolina and communicates in English. She emphasizes steady support and practical progress for people ready to take the next step toward feeling better.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take steps toward those values even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and situations where decisions feel stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, with practical exercises that can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens and reflects so clients can find their own solutions and build confidence.Finding the right mix of approaches is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to choose strategies that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day realities. Sessions can try different methods and adjust over time so the plan stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is good for face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers quicker check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect before they write. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent, fit sessions into work or caregiving schedules, and practice skills between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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