About Niesha
Niesha Turner is a Licensed Professional Counselor with two decades of experience in social services. She listens without judgment and helps people untangle the stress and worry that get in the way of day-to-day life. Many people come to her feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck after hard experiences.
Turner draws on a mix of practical approaches to guide sessions. She uses client-centered work to follow what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. Her background includes long experience in counseling adults and a focus on issues like anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and parenting strain.
She also addresses concerns such as grief, self-esteem, intimacy-related struggles, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Turner holds LPC and LPCC credentials and practices in California. Over 20 years in the field have given her many chances to refine a straightforward, steady approach.
Sessions are aimed at practical coping and clearer decision making rather than labels or tests. People who work with her can expect a respectful, calm presence and tools they can use between meetings. She helps clients set small goals, practice new skills, and track progress over time.
Practical approaches and online options for care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the client. The therapist creates space for people to tell their story and helps them set goals based on their values and needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems active and teaches concrete exercises to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Over time those choices can be adjusted based on what feels most useful and what helps people make steady progress.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care easier to fit into a busy life. Video lets people do longer discussions and see facial cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief check-ins, skill practice, and flexible communication between scheduled appointments. These options aim to make it simpler to attend sessions and practice skills consistently.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, California
- Languages
- English
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