About Kolbe
Kolbe Gray is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with eight years of experience helping people cope with stress and anxiety. She focuses on practical steps people can use when things feel overwhelming. Kolbe aims to meet clients where they are and support steady progress toward feeling more balanced.
Her work often addresses addiction-related concerns, low self-esteem, depression, and major life changes. She also has additional experience with post-traumatic stress and social anxiety and phobia.
Background and approach
Sessions center on the client's own goals and strengths rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Kolbe uses straightforward techniques to help people recognize unhelpful patterns and try different ways of responding. She blends approaches that focus on thoughts, behaviors, and processing difficult memories when it fits the client's needs.
The emphasis is on small, achievable steps that build confidence over time. Clients can expect a collaborative style where Kolbe listens first, then offers tools and exercises tailored to day-to-day life. She encourages homework between sessions so new skills can be practiced in real situations.
Progress is tracked in simple, concrete ways rather than vague promises. Practicing in Pennsylvania as an LPC, Kolbe brings a calm, steady presence to sessions. Her goal is to help people find clearer thinking, steadier moods, and more motivation.
She supports each person in deciding which next step feels right for them.
How CBT and EMDR are used in online care
Kolbe commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT focuses on practical exercises and short-term goals, which can help with anxiety, stress, low mood, and problematic habits.She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, to help process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity. EMDR sessions involve recalling difficult memories while using guided bilateral stimulation to support emotional processing when appropriate for the client's needs.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Kolbe will talk through your history, current concerns, and what you want to achieve. Together you will try methods that fit your goals, and adjust the plan as you go so the work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so therapy can fit into busy lives. Video works well for visual interaction and guided exercises, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can support brief check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and keep progress moving forward.
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- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, Oregon
- Languages
- English
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