About Tenethrea
Tenethrea Buffington is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 17 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety and supports those trying to rebuild confidence and motivation. She listens for strengths and practical steps that fit each person’s life.
Tenethrea focuses on everyday problems that wear people down. She helps with relationship friction, anger, grief, and the strain of life transitions.
Background and approach
She also works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, parenting stress, and career difficulties. Areas of focus include panic attacks, social anxiety, ADHD-related struggles, and challenges tied to family of origin and blended families. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward.
Sessions are a chance to name what’s happening, look for useful patterns, and try small changes that can make a difference. She encourages people to build on their strengths and to move at a pace that feels manageable. Tenethrea supports work on emotional wounds like abandonment, guilt, shame, and issues around intimacy.
She also offers coaching-style guidance for motivation and life goals. Her work blends practical problem solving with attention to personal history and values. People who choose her often want clear, realistic tools and steady support.
Tenethrea aims to create space for honest conversation, steady progress, and clearer next steps toward a calmer, more confident life.
Approaches that meet you where you are, online
Tenethrea uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear steps and practical change. One approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying alternative, realistic thoughts to reduce anxiety and lift mood; this helps with panic, social anxiety, and daily worry. Another approach centers on building coping skills and routines to manage stress and improve emotional regulation, which can help with anger, motivation, and life transitions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then try methods that fit those needs. She sees therapy as a collaborative process where techniques are adjusted over time based on what works.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation from different locations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Chat and text messaging can help keep momentum between longer sessions and offer a way to touch base without scheduling a full appointment.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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