About Venita
Venita Gowdy is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Alabama. She brings 13 years of experience to sessions and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, mood concerns, and relationship stress. Her approach is warm and practical, aimed at everyday problems and real change.
She uses client-centered work to help people feel heard and respected. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of her practice when patterns of thinking and behavior contribute to distress.
Background and approach
She also draws on solution-focused methods to set short-term goals and build on strengths. Venita has helped people with parenting strain, blended family challenges, attachment concerns, and issues tied to ADHD, impulsivity, and disruptive mood regulation. She has experience addressing trauma and abuse, as well as mood disorders such as bipolar disorder and depressive episodes.
She also supports those coping with life changes and anger management. Sessions often include practical exercises and simple assignments to try between meetings. Venita adapts plans to each person’s needs and checks in about what is and isn’t working.
Her style is inviting but directed, aiming to balance empathy with clear next steps. She offers sessions in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. People typically begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist creates a respectful space and follows the person’s concerns, helping them feel heard and supported as they talk through issues like relationship stress or parenting strain.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions connect. It breaks down unhelpful thinking patterns and builds practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change behaviors that cause problems.
Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small usable changes. Sessions aim to set clear, short-term goals and use strengths to create progress quickly, which can help with stress, anger, and coping during life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Techniques can be mixed and adjusted as progress is reviewed during treatment.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and exercises, while phone sessions can be easier on low bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can support brief check-ins, quick coping strategies, and ongoing encouragement between meetings, making it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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