About Juanita
Juanita Gamache is a licensed counselor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and relationship struggles. She emphasizes a nonjudgmental space where clients can name problems and find steps forward. Her approach is calm and practical, aiming to give tools people can use between sessions.
With 22 years of experience, Juanita blends several therapy styles to match a person's needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behavior.
Background and approach
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice hard feelings and commit to valued actions. Juanita also uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centered approaches to focus on how relationships shape feelings and self-worth. She listens closely and helps people feel seen while guiding them to clearer communication and healthier boundaries.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are available for stress management and emotion regulation. Sessions may address addictions, parenting strain, work stress, compassion fatigue, or the fallout from loss and separation. She helps people work through family of origin issues, codependency, control struggles, and intimacy-related concerns.
She also supports those dealing with adoption or blended family challenges. Juanita practices in Tennessee and works with adults seeking practical ways to cope with life changes. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so therapy fits into busy days.
She encourages a steady, collaborative pace so people can try things and adjust as they go.
How evidence-based approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood.Attachment-Based work looks at how early and current relationships shape emotional patterns and self-view; it can guide changes in how someone connects with others and sets boundaries. Juanita combines these approaches to fit what each person needs and prefers, and she discusses options together so the plan reflects the client's goals.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for this work. Video calls let a therapist observe facial cues and body language for richer feedback. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging allow short check-ins, skill practice, and timely support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to use therapy alongside work, childcare, or medical appointments, and they allow treatment to continue even when schedules or locations change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee, Utah
- Languages
- English
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