About Ramona
Ramona McKinney is a licensed marriage and family therapist with nine years of clinical experience in Tennessee. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and big life changes. Ramona aims to make the first steps feel manageable and clear for someone who is worried or unsure about therapy.
She takes a person-centered approach and listens for each client's priorities. Sessions look at how current problems connect to relationships, past hurts, and everyday routines.
Background and approach
Ramona helps people name what matters, spot unhelpful patterns, and try small changes that can ease pressure. Her work often involves practical coping skills for anxiety and stress. She also supports people processing grief, recovering from abuse, or adjusting after separation.
Conversations may include communication skills, setting boundaries, and rebuilding trust after loss or trauma. Ramona has experience with issues tied to family life such as adoption and foster care, blended family challenges, caregiving stress, and attachment concerns. She also addresses related concerns like codependency, substance use, and the effects of disaster or domestic violence.
Sessions are offered in English and can be done through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Ramona believes therapy is a collaborative process and works with each person to set realistic goals and steps for change.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Ramona draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide her work. One common approach focuses on teaching practical coping skills for anxiety and stress, such as breathing strategies, activity planning, and stepwise exposure to feared situations. These techniques help people reduce immediate distress and build tolerance for difficult feelings.Another approach emphasizes processing trauma and hurt from past experiences by helping clients tell their story at a pace that feels manageable. This work often includes learning to regulate strong emotions, improve safety in relationships, and rebuild a sense of control after abuse or loss.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Ramona collaborates with each person to identify goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. She sees therapy as a team effort where feedback guides the next steps.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can pick what fits their life. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, and chat or messaging works well for brief check-ins or people who prefer typing. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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