About Quencina
Quencina Gardner is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Her approach centers on listening first and helping people take small steps that fit their daily lives.
Quencina helps people who are coping with relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and major life changes. She also addresses concerns such as caregiver stress, addiction, attachment issues, and family of origin difficulties.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at finding clear, manageable ways to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning. In the therapy space she creates an open atmosphere where clients can talk through thoughts and feelings without judgment. She uses techniques drawn from client-centered work to make sessions collaborative and respectful.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to spot unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. When emotions feel intense or overwhelming she draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy strategies to teach practical skills for managing feelings and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Existential and Jungian ideas are brought in as helpful lenses for meaning, identity, and deeper self-understanding when clients want them.
Quencina encourages people to start small and focus on changes they can keep up with. She explains choices clearly and partners with each person to set realistic goals. For those who prefer online care, she offers several ways to connect and work toward clearer coping and healthier routines.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client's perspective guides the work. It helps people who need a listening ear and want to set their own pace for change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It uses clear exercises to test and change unhelpful thinking and build healthier habits, which can be useful for anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options and adjust methods based on the client's goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful in early sessions. Together they decide which strategies to emphasize and when to try different tools.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people maintain face-to-face contact when schedules or distance make in-person visits hard. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a client prefers not to use video. Live chat and text-based messaging can be useful for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or continuing work between scheduled sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while trying approaches that address anxiety, stress, and relationship concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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