About Genera
Genera Gilliam, LCMHC, helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, ADHD, and relationship or family strain. She works with concerns like parenting stress, low self-esteem, mood disorders, and the effects of trauma and loss. Her tone is practical and supportive, aimed at people who want change but may feel stuck.
Genera uses straightforward conversations to identify what clients want to change. She focuses on each person’s strengths and practical steps they can try between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions often include working on thought patterns, finding small solutions, and practicing mindfulness techniques to reduce overwhelm. Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Arts in Counseling from North Carolina Central University. Genera has about 16 years of experience across school, agency, and independent practice settings.
That experience includes individual and group work as well as family-related concerns. She blends client-centered listening with cognitive and solution-focused tools. That means she listens first, helps people set clear short-term goals, and teaches skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also connects people with community resources when that extra support helps. Genera aims to make therapy a practical part of daily life. She helps people clarify values and goals, manage impulsivity or panic, and build routines that support mood and functioning.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Practical therapy approaches and online access
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person’s view. It helps people feel heard and decide what matters most to them before work begins.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches concrete skills to test unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors, which can help with anxiety, mood issues, impulsivity, and ADHD-related struggles.
Mindfulness therapy uses simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. This can be useful when stress, panic, or racing thoughts make daily tasks harder.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to pick methods that match a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions may change over time as progress and priorities shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to check in quickly, send short updates, or have shorter sessions when that works better for scheduling. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent amid a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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