About Pamela
Dr. Pamela Kayanan is a licensed counselor and marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience. She holds a PhD in Counseling and Education and practices in Virginia.
She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, and also addresses depression, addiction, trauma, and related concerns. Her approach mixes straightforward, goal-focused work with attention to how emotions and behaviors interact. She uses client-centered conversations to learn what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness and motivational strategies are part of her toolbox when they fit a person's goals. Dr.
Kayanan has long experience with trauma and post-traumatic stress, and has worked with veterans and first responder issues through specialized programs. She has also supported people struggling with substance use, behavioral addictions, and mood disorders. Parenting stress, adoption and foster care questions, attachment and blended family concerns are other areas she addresses.
Sessions focus on clear steps people can take between meetings. The work is collaborative - the therapist helps set practical goals and teaches skills to handle anxiety, cravings, mood shifts, or relationship strain. Progress is reviewed regularly and plans are adjusted as needed.
Her background includes clinical practice and writing about adolescence and parenting. She combines long experience with a down-to-earth style that emphasizes real change and personal agency.
Therapeutic approaches applied to online care
Client-centered work focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. It helps build trust and clarify goals so sessions stay practical and relevant to daily life. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and offers concrete exercises to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the best approach is a shared process. The therapist and client discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as progress is made. This collaborative stance helps tailor treatment for anxiety, addiction concerns, mood issues, and relationship stress.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and teaching of skills. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework review, or short skills practice between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work and family schedules and to continue consistent care when travel or busy weeks get in the way.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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