About Pamela
Pamela Grove Gougelman is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with 30 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, grief, and major life changes. Pamela focuses on practical steps people can take right away to feel steadier and more able to cope.
She draws on approaches that help people notice what matters to them, change unhelpful thinking patterns, and build better emotional skills.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with an emphasis on real-world strategies and steady progress. Pamela listens for each person’s priorities and adapts her work to fit their needs. Her background includes long experience supporting people through addiction challenges, chronic illness and pain, caregiving strain, and career or relationship stress.
She also addresses concerns such as sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, and issues tied to abandonment or attachment. Pamela uses methods from acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral ideas, attachment-based perspectives, dialectical behavior skills, and a client-centered stance. That mix helps clients learn new skills, tolerate difficult feelings, and strengthen relationships where possible.
People who choose Pamela can expect straightforward conversation, skill practice between sessions, and clear steps to try at home. She works with each person to set realistic goals and track small gains over time.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps toward them. It helps when worry, avoidance, or unhelpful thoughts get in the way of living the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change upsetting patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many day-to-day struggles. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current ways of relating and managing emotions, which can support people dealing with relationship stress or attachment concerns.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Pamela collaborates with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals and comfort level. Together they set short-term aims, try interventions, and adjust the plan as progress is made so the work feels relevant and doable.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is often used for deeper conversation and skills practice. Phone can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Live chat or text messaging can serve as quick check-ins or structured exercises between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue work during life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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