About Dennisha
Dennisha Pauley is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. She creates a calm, respectful space where clients can talk about hard things and figure out what they want to change. Her style is warm and supportive while staying practical and goal-oriented.
She draws on about 10 years as an LCMHC and nearly two decades working in mental health. That range has given her experience with trauma and abuse, parenting and family concerns, ADHD, career and relationship strain, and chronic illness or caregiving stress.
Background and approach
Dennisha adapts how she works to fit each person’s needs rather than using one standard plan. In sessions she mixes conversational listening with concrete tools you can try between meetings. That may include learning new coping skills for anxiety, practicing emotion regulation, or building steps toward better sleep and routine.
She helps people break big problems into small, doable actions. Dennisha aims to partner with clients on goals that matter to them. She pays attention to how past losses or attachment wounds show up now, and she helps people rebuild confidence and stronger patterns in relationships.
Progress is worked on step by step with feedback and adjustments. People who choose her often want practical strategies plus a steady, understanding clinician to walk alongside them. Dennisha works from North Carolina and offers sessions that fit different schedules and communication styles.
How Dennisha’s Methods Translate to Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and managing life transitions by teaching small steps toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers practical exercises to change patterns that keep problems going. It often helps with anxiety, sleep troubles, and mood concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Dennisha will discuss which methods fit your goals and adjust techniques as progress is made. The process is collaborative, with room to try things and change course based on what helps you most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexible ways to connect. Video is helpful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, chat can be a quick check-in, and messages allow brief updates or ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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