About Greta
Dr. Greta Willoughby is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 25 years of experience helping adults manage stress and anxiety. She takes a down-to-earth approach that focuses on practical steps and steady support.
Her style aims to help people feel more in control and more hopeful about day-to-day life. She works with people facing relationship struggles, low self-esteem, and big life changes. She also supports those dealing with compassion fatigue and the stress that comes from caregiving or chronic illness.
Background and approach
Her experience includes helping clients navigate aging, cancer, end-of-life issues, and the emotional effects of natural or human-caused disasters. Her background includes long-term professional work in Georgia with adults across life stages. That experience informs how she helps people set realistic goals and build on their strengths.
She encourages small, doable changes rather than overwhelming plans. In sessions she listens for patterns that cause repeated stress and then helps people try different ways of responding. Conversations may include practical coping skills, ways to manage daily tension, and strategies to rebuild motivation and self-worth.
She believes people shape their own stories and can find ways forward. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person. She supports clients who want steady, experienced guidance while they work through life transitions and anxiety.
Dr. Willoughby provides services in English and practices in Georgia as an LPC.
Evidence-based tools and online flexibility
Dr. Willoughby uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and emotional regulation. One common approach she relies on teaches clear coping strategies for stress and anxiety, such as breath work, activity scheduling, and step-by-step problem solving. These tools help people reduce daily tension and regain a sense of control.Another approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying new behaviors in small, manageable steps. This work helps with low self-esteem, relationship friction, and motivation by breaking bigger problems into achievable tasks. Both methods are aimed at real-world change rather than abstract theory.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. She works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That collaborative stance lets people test techniques and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer, interactive sessions. Phone sessions can be good when bandwidth is limited or a conversation is preferred without video. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, quick coping reminders, or when a flexible check-in during a busy day is needed. These options make therapy easier to fit into work, caregiving, or recovery routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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