About Gretchen
Gretchen Dison is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana with five years of clinical experience. She focuses on common concerns like stress, anxiety, sleep problems, low self-esteem, and depression. Gretchen frames the work around each person's strengths and helps them take practical steps toward feeling better.
Her style centers on listening first and helping people find what already works for them. She treats clients as the experts on their lives and offers clear, down-to-earth guidance.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be collaborative, with goals set together and progress checked along the way. Gretchen uses client-centered methods to build trust and make space for honest conversation. She also draws on cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to identify unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and to practice small, manageable changes.
These approaches are used to address panic attacks, social anxiety, and persistent worry among other issues. People often come for help with communication problems, control issues, guilt, shame, and feelings of isolation. Gretchen also supports those navigating life purpose, forgiveness, and compassion fatigue.
Conversations focus on real-world coping tools that can fit into busy days. The first sessions typically explore current concerns and immediate coping strategies. From there she and the client plan ongoing work together, adjusting approaches as needs change.
The aim is steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on creating a respectful, listening space where the person leads the conversation. Online sessions let that process happen through conversation and reflection, helping clients feel heard and understood even when not meeting in person.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In remote sessions a therapist can guide thought records, behavioral experiments, and step-by-step skill practice that clients use between meetings to reduce anxiety and manage panic attacks.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about current concerns, goals, and what methods feel most practical. Together they decide whether to focus more on problem-solving, skills practice, or deeper listening work and adjust as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls work well for full sessions and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options offer flexibility to match therapy to daily life and scheduling needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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