About Dennisha
Dennisha Pauley is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina who helps people facing anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and ADHD. She speaks plain, direct words in sessions and creates a calm space for people to sort through worries and make practical changes.
She brings ten years of clinical experience and nearly two decades in mental health work to each meeting. That background shows up as steady presence and familiarity with many common problems, from sleep and anger struggles to career and relationship strain.
Background and approach
Sessions are warm and respectful, with a focus on what the person wants to achieve. Pauley mixes several therapy approaches to fit each person’s needs. She may use cognitive-behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thinking, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, or client-centered listening to make space for emotion.
Treatment plans are adjusted over time based on how a person responds. Conversations in her work often include practical tools and simple homework to try between meetings. People can expect clear goals, direct feedback, and steady support as they practice new habits.
The aim is to make therapy useful for everyday life, not just talk. She regularly addresses issues like parenting stress, family conflict, intimacy concerns, chronic illness, and compassion fatigue. Pauley encourages questions and collaborative planning so clients leave each session with a next step they can use.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors through practical exercises and short homework tasks, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety, sleep problems, and low mood. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person’s experience, offering active listening and reflection so people feel heard and can identify their own solutions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dennisha will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts techniques over time and checks in to see what is helping and what needs to change.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a lighter option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options provide flexibility for scheduling, allow short follow-ups, and let people pick the format that feels most manageable for them.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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