About Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn Sanders is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of practice experience. She offers a calm, welcoming presence and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. Her approach centers on the person in front of her.
She uses client-centered methods to listen and build a plan that fits each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used when helpful to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Motivational Interviewing supports people who want to make lasting changes but feel stuck. Gwendolyn has worked across a wide range of life challenges. She helps people facing parenting stresses, intimacy and communication problems, blended family issues, and transitions such as divorce or caregiving demands.
She also supports those coping with illness, hospice and end-of-life concerns, adoption and foster care questions, and loneliness or life-purpose doubts. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Her years of practice give her experience adapting conversations to brief check-ins or longer talk therapy sessions depending on what a person needs.
People who choose her can expect practical talk, steady support, and a focus on clear goals. She works with each person to set steps they can try between sessions and checks progress along the way.
Online approaches that fit your life
Gwendolyn uses client-centered work to make sessions about the person's priorities. That means she listens closely and helps set goals that matter to the client, then adjusts the pace and focus to fit each situation.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings and actions. CBT is often useful for managing anxiety, stress, and patterns that get in the way of daily life. Motivational Interviewing is another tool she uses to help people find their own reasons to change and stay motivated through difficult steps.
Finding the right combination is a collaborative process. She will work with each person to decide which approach or mix of approaches best fits their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they set short-term goals and check progress over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messages are useful for ongoing support between sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into work, family, or caregiving schedules while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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