About Goldie
Goldie Oakes, LPC, works with people facing anxiety, stress, grief, and life changes. She writes plainly and focuses on tools people can use every day. Her style blends direct problem-solving with gentle attention to feelings.
She aims to help people regain motivation, improve relationships, and manage strong emotions so daily life feels easier. Goldie brings 19 years of counseling experience in Virginia. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and build new skills.
Background and approach
She also draws on Client-Centered methods to follow each person's pace and priorities. Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are used when they fit the client's goals. Sessions may include practical homework such as journaling, short skill practices, and reading selected material.
These tasks are assigned to help skills transfer from sessions into real situations. The therapist notes that faith and spiritual resources are sometimes part of the work when a client chooses to include them.
Goldie helps people address a wide range of concerns including depression, addiction-related struggles, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem, parenting stress, caregiver strain, and career transitions. She also supports people coping with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, codependency, communication problems, and coping after disasters. Her approach centers on collaboration.
Clients set goals and she uses evidence-based techniques to move toward them. The work is focused on clear steps, regular check-ins, and practical skills to help with everyday challenges.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening carefully and following the client's concerns. The therapist uses this approach to help people set goals, name what matters most, and move at a comfortable pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical steps to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes and often includes short exercises to practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest ways to combine these methods. That collaborative decision means the plan can change as progress and new priorities appear.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to keep that collaboration going. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be a good option when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easy to check in between appointments, send short reflections, or get brief coaching during a busy day. These formats help people fit therapy into work, family, and caregiving routines while continuing paced, skill-focused treatment.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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