About FreEtta
FreEtta Nelson-Hemphill is a Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW) who uses clear, practical methods to help people manage anxiety and other life stresses. She greets clients with warmth and a direct style, listening first to get a real picture of what is working and what is not. Her approach focuses on named problems and concrete goals.
Many people call her Fritzi, and she invites that informal connection if it feels right.
Background and approach
With 26 years of experience, she draws on a mix of therapy approaches to match a client's needs. Sessions often begin with questions and careful listening to map out current patterns. From there she helps people set focused goals and practice changes that can be used in daily life.
FreEtta commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients notice and change thought patterns and behaviors that keep problems going. She also integrates mindfulness practices to build moment-to-moment awareness and psychodynamic ideas to look at longer-term patterns that repeat across relationships. Trauma-focused work is used when painful past events affect current functioning.
Her experience includes supporting people with stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, self-esteem, depression, grief, trauma and LGBT issues. She also addresses career concerns, intimacy-related issues, anger, and midlife transitions. Additional focuses include immigration issues, jealousy, narcissism, self-love, social anxiety, women's issues, and young adult concerns.
Sessions are offered in English and provided from Arkansas. FreEtta describes therapy as a collaborative effort that takes time and practice, and she helps clients build skills they can use after sessions end.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
FreEtta commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on spotting and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online sessions can include guided exercises, homework, and real-time practice that help reduce anxiety and improve coping skills. Mindfulness therapy is also part of her work and teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and increase calm during stressful moments.She approaches care collaboratively and will help clients choose the most useful methods for their goals. That means trying techniques, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan together as needs and preferences become clearer. The therapist will discuss which approaches fit a person's situation and pace the work accordingly.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match practical needs. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can fit brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work when in-person visits are difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Arkansas
- Languages
- English
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