About Clarissa
Clarissa Poole Parks is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia who uses practical, hands-on approaches to help people manage stress and anxiety. She brings ten years of experience working with adults, adolescents, and children. Her manner is warm and respectful, and she focuses on helping people take small, meaningful steps toward feeling better.
She often combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with solution-focused work to address symptoms and build coping skills.
Background and approach
She also draws on mindfulness practices to reduce overwhelm and psychodynamic ideas to help people understand repeating patterns. Sessions emphasize clear strategies people can use between visits. Clarissa has supported people facing depression, grief, trauma and abuse, and relationship strain.
She also helps with parenting stress, intimacy concerns, self-esteem, and anger. Additional areas she addresses include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family challenges, body image, and caregiver stress. Her style is personable and nonjudgmental.
She aims to listen first, then offer straightforward tools and steps clients can try. Progress is treated as a process with practical goals and ongoing adjustments. People who choose her often want actionable techniques and a calm, steady guide while they work through life changes.
She encourages anyone taking the first step toward change and offers support along the way.
Approaches that guide online care
Clarissa often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that increase anxiety and stress. CBT focuses on small, practical steps and exercises people can use between sessions to reduce symptoms and build confidence. She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas to help people understand and shift patterns in close relationships, addressing attachment and communication problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Clarissa listens to a person's goals and preferences, then suggests methods to try. She encourages collaboration, checks in on what works, and adjusts techniques as needed so care matches the person's needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit into a break or require less bandwidth, and brief text or chat can work for shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care while balancing school, work, or family demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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