About Aisha
Aisha Gilliam is a licensed professional counselor who supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and challenges related to ADHD. She greets each person with warmth and aims to make the choice to seek help feel manageable. Aisha wants clients to know that taking this step is meaningful and something to be proud of.
Aisha brings seven years of clinical experience across schools, hospitals, and independent practice settings. She has worked with individuals and couples dealing with school concerns, life transitions, and romantic relationship problems.
Background and approach
Her work also includes supporting people with parenting struggles, grief, career concerns, compassion fatigue, and postpartum depression. In sessions she focuses on straightforward, practical strategies. She uses client-centered methods to listen and follow the client's lead.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors, and solution-focused ideas to set clear, short-term goals. Aisha describes herself as easy to talk with and patient. She aims to create a nonjudging space where people can talk through difficult moments.
Her approach is collaborative - she helps clients set goals and chooses methods that match those goals. People who reach out can expect a mix of talking, practical skill-building, and goal-setting. Aisha also supports issues related to chronic pain and illness, life purpose, women’s issues, and young adult concerns.
She works in Missouri and conducts sessions in English.
How online approaches and practical therapy work together
Aisha uses client-centered therapy to follow what matters most to the client, giving space for people to tell their story and set the pace. This approach is helpful when someone needs emotional support and a therapist who listens without judgment.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that get in the way and then trying different, practical strategies. CBT can help with anxiety, low mood, stress, and patterns that interfere with daily life.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Aisha will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls let people connect face to face, phone sessions work well when bandwidth or camera use is difficult, and live chat or messaging can be useful for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and offer flexible ways to practice skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Texas
- Languages
- English
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