About Tenisha
Tenisha Pettus, LMFT, helps people manage stress and anxiety and handle relationship and family challenges. She offers straightforward support for anger, self-esteem, grief, addiction concerns, and workplace or career stress. Her style is down-to-earth and practical for people who want clear steps and real changes.
She creates a calm space where clients can say what they feel without judgment. Conversations focus on what is happening now and what can change next.
Background and approach
Sessions mix practical strategies with conversations about patterns that keep problems going. Tenisha uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors. She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to support people who want to make changes but feel stuck.
Systemic Therapy helps when relationship or family patterns affect a person’s well-being. Tenisha has 14 years of experience working with adults in Florida and holds a licensed marriage and family therapist credential. She works with concerns including addiction, LGBT issues, intimacy-related problems, compassion fatigue, and social anxiety.
Her approach is collaborative and paced to fit each person. She helps clients set small goals and practices they can use between sessions. The aim is to build skills that make daily life feel more manageable.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Tenisha uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that increase anxiety or keep problems going. CBT focuses on small, practical experiments you can try between sessions to shift how you feel and act.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to support people who feel stuck or unsure about change. This approach helps clarify personal goals and strengthens motivation at a pace that feels doable.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Tenisha works together with each client to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That collaboration guides what is tried in sessions and what homework may help between meetings.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works well for quick check-ins, and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reflection. These options make it possible to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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