About Chanda
Dr. Chanda Pilgrim welcomes people who feel overwhelmed or stuck and want practical help to feel better. She writes plainly and listens closely to understand what feels biggest to each person.
Her aim is to help clients notice different ways of looking at problems so small changes can make daily life easier. Dr. Pilgrim is a Georgia psychologist (GA Psychologist PSY003471) with 26 years of experience.
She has worked in schools, personal agencies, and community mental health settings.
Background and approach
That background means she has seen many kinds of struggles and knows how life stresses can pile up. She practices from a whole-person perspective. That means talks about mood also include questions about sleep, diet, and exercise.
She believes body routines and mental habits affect each other and looks for changes that are realistic to add into daily life. Her approach is cognitively based and uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to help people notice how thoughts shape feelings. Sessions include talking about personal history, practicing new ways of thinking, and short exercises to try between meetings.
Homework assignments are part of the plan to build new habits outside the session. Dr. Pilgrim works with a broad range of concerns, including depression, anxiety, ADHD, relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, trauma and other mood issues.
She aims to build a warm working relationship so people feel understood while they try new strategies.
How CBT and online care work together
Dr. Pilgrim uses a cognitively based approach called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. CBT focuses on identifying the thoughts that lead to painful feelings and testing new ways of thinking. It often helps with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related struggles, and mood regulation by breaking problems into small, manageable steps.She also emphasizes whole-person habits in sessions, looking at sleep, diet, and exercise alongside thinking patterns. That combination helps translate insights into everyday routines that support mood and energy. Choosing the right mix of techniques is collaborative - the therapist and client decide together what to try based on needs and goals.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for guided conversations and exercises that benefit from seeing one another. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick updates, brief coaching, or ongoing homework support between sessions. These options offer flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English
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