About Gretchen
Gretchen Landry is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Louisiana with 15 years of experience. She offers straightforward help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or life transitions. Her background includes medical social work and experience supporting people impacted by cancer and other medical conditions.
Gretchen keeps sessions warm and interactive. She listens closely and helps people name what feels hard. Then she works with them to set clear, doable goals and practical next steps.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on methods that focus on thoughts, values, and present-moment awareness. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. She also integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people act in line with what matters most to them.
In sessions, she often mixes mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing to build small, steady changes. She explains things in plain language and checks in about what is helpful. The goal is steady progress that fits each person's life.
People come to her for a range of concerns beyond mood and anxiety, including relationship strain, parenting stress, addiction, coping with illness, family-of-origin issues, and end-of-life or hospice support. She aims to make therapy practical, empathetic, and focused on what will help someone move forward.
Practical approaches for online therapy and healing
Gretchen uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and test unhelpful thinking patterns and try different behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by turning thought awareness into action. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take steps that matter despite painful feelings. ACT can be useful when someone wants to build a meaningful life alongside difficult emotions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they try strategies and adjust the plan based on what helps the person make steady progress.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video is good for a full conversation and exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and medical appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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