About Thelma
Thelma Hunter is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Kentucky with 25 years of experience supporting people facing stress and anxiety. She helps with depression, bipolar concerns, and addictions. She also addresses relationship strains, parenting pressure, grief, and issues with self-esteem and confidence.
Thelma centers the conversation on each person's story and strengths. She treats the client as the expert on their life and works alongside them to set goals and try practical steps.
Background and approach
Sessions are focused and straightforward, with room to talk through feelings and plan manageable changes. Over her career she has helped people manage anger, navigate career transitions, and cope with trauma and loss. She also offers help for concerns such as phobias, obsessions and compulsions, caregiving stress, and struggles around body image and intimacy.
Her work includes support for those facing midlife questions, isolation, and life-purpose concerns. People meet here for calm, directed conversations that aim to reduce overwhelm and increase usable tools for daily life. Thelma draws on what has worked for each person before and experiments with new strategies when needed.
She emphasizes steady steps that fit a person’s routine and responsibilities. Thelma provides services to adults from Kentucky by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging. She works in English and brings long-term clinical experience to practical, down-to-earth sessions.
Practical approaches and online sessions that fit your life
Two evidence-based approaches she uses involve structured, problem-focused work and skills practice in session. One method breaks down worries and unhelpful patterns into smaller parts, so people can test new responses and reduce anxious thinking. Another focuses on building concrete coping skills for mood swings, cravings, or intense emotions, with step-by-step plans to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will review your concerns, try a few methods, and adjust plans based on what helps most. Goals and methods are decided together so the work fits your needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for full check-ins. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, quick problem-solving, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep consistent momentum toward your goals.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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