About Connie
Connie Grand is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 25 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and relationship strains. Her approach aims to make talking about hard things feel straightforward and manageable.
Connie focuses on creating an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can share thoughts and feelings. She supports people working through trauma, intimacy issues, grief, and parenting stress. She also addresses concerns related to addictions, bipolar disorder, and self-esteem challenges.
Background and approach
Her work often covers relationship problems, LGBT concerns, and the impacts of prejudice or discrimination. Additional focus areas include autism and Asperger syndrome, HIV/AIDS, intellectual disability, OCD-related compulsions, and issues unique to young adults. She is comfortable discussing infidelity and non-monogamous relationship dynamics when they arise.
Sessions emphasize practical steps people can try between meetings. Connie uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and take values-based action. She also draws on client-centered and existential ideas to keep sessions grounded in what matters to each person.
Her style is supportive and collaborative. She encourages small, steady changes and helps clients build skills for difficult moments. People looking for straightforward, empathetic help with anxiety and life stress might find her approach useful.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and life stress
Connie commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on noticing and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Acceptance and commitment therapy helps people clarify their values and take small actions that align with those values, even when uncomfortable feelings remain.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and personality. That collaborative process can include trying different techniques and adjusting the plan based on what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling flexible. Video calls are useful for face-to-face interaction, phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging works for ongoing, day-to-day support. These options help people fit therapy into work, school, or busy family schedules and make it easier to connect from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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