About Connie
Connie Kretchmar is a licensed counselor with 18 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and relationship concerns. She meets clients where they are and focuses on realistic steps that reduce distress and restore momentum. Connie works with adults on issues like self-esteem, career shifts, intimacy, and coping with life changes.
She trained in counseling and holds a Master of Arts in Counseling from East Tennessee State University and practices in North Carolina as an LCMHC.
Background and approach
Connie blends common-sense techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy with acceptance and commitment ideas and client-centered ways of listening. She often uses solution-focused conversations to create clear, short-term goals. Sessions are practical and collaborative.
Connie helps people identify what matters to them, notice unhelpful patterns, and try small experiments that build confidence. She teaches coping skills and mindfulness practices that can be used between meetings. Connie also supports people facing family and relational strain, blended family issues, caregiving stress, and attachment concerns.
Other areas she addresses include body image, eating-related concerns, and forgiveness work. She gives straightforward tools for communication, decision making, and managing control issues. Her style is empathetic and non-judgmental while remaining goal oriented.
Many people come because they feel stuck; Connie treats that as a starting place for change, not a label. She helps clients build momentum toward a more fulfilling everyday life.
How her approaches fit with online therapy
Connie commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and client-centered techniques. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change patterns that maintain anxiety or depression. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) helps people notice their values and accept difficult feelings while taking committed action toward what matters. Client-centered methods focus on empathic listening and creating a respectful space where a person can talk through choices and concerns.Choosing a therapeutic approach is part of the work together. Connie will talk with the client about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan as progress or needs change. The client and therapist collaborate to find what helps most in day-to-day life.
Online sessions make regular work more practical. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let clients share thoughts between meetings or use brief coaching-style support when writing helps. These options offer flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels with technology.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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