About Pamela
Pamela English is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Connecticut who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, and relationship concerns. She writes and speaks plainly in sessions and focuses on practical steps people can try between meetings. Pamela aims to make therapy feel manageable for busy lives and worried parents reading on a phone.
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. She listens for patterns that keep a person stuck, then works with them to try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions often include clear, small goals and skill-building to reduce symptoms and improve daily routines. Pamela uses a mix of approaches including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral tools, and attachment-focused perspectives. She adapts methods to each person rather than following one fixed protocol.
This helps when concerns include mood swings, trauma, or trouble with boundaries and self-worth. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance. That can help with intense feelings, impulsive behaviors, and relationship stress.
Pamela encourages practice between sessions so new habits take hold. With five years of clinical experience, Pamela works with adults on issues such as addiction, eating concerns, intimacy-related problems, and caregiving stress. Sessions are offered in English and available to international clients.
Her approach centers on collaboration, steady progress, and realistic steps toward better functioning.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting caught in them and commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful when someone feels stuck by anxiety, depression, or avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to change mood and behavior. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and managing ADHD-related tasks.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Pamela will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then suggest techniques to try. She adapts methods over time based on what helps most, and she encourages clients to give feedback about what is or isn’t working.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skill coaching, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect and respond on their own time. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to practice skills between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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