About Genera
Genera Gilliam is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, parenting pressures, and issues with self-esteem. She also supports people facing depression, relationship and family concerns, trauma, and life transitions. Genera emphasizes practical steps to make everyday life feel more manageable.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She uses a client-centered approach that focuses on each person’s strengths. Genera draws on solution-focused methods and cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Genera has 16 years of counseling experience across schools, agencies, and independent practice in North Carolina. She has worked with individuals in individual and group settings and brings experience addressing a wide range of concerns from panic attacks to caregiver stress and multicultural issues. Sessions are shaped around what the client wants to change.
Genera helps people set clear, achievable goals and practices skills in session that can be used between visits. She encourages involvement of a person’s support network when that will help progress toward goals.
Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Arts in Counseling from North Carolina Central University. She holds the LCMHC credential in North Carolina and offers services in English.
Approaches for online work and practical coping
Genera combines client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people manage anxiety and stress. Client-centered work focuses on listening, building on strengths, and shaping goals that matter to the individual. Cognitive behavioral techniques look at thoughts and behaviors, teaching concrete tools to reduce panic, worry, and low mood.She also uses mindfulness strategies to help people notice their thoughts and bodily reactions in the moment and learn simple ways to come back to the present. These methods are often useful for panic attacks, social anxiety, and ongoing stress. Together these approaches aim to give skills people can use between sessions to handle triggers and difficult moments.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Genera will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that fit their needs, goals, and daily life. She adjusts strategies based on progress and what feels most helpful during online sessions.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Chat and messaging are useful for quick updates, brief coaching, and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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