About Pamela
Pamela Gerdes is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) based in Idaho who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and relationship struggles. She brings ten years of clinical experience to sessions and aims to create a calm, respectful space where clients can talk through what matters most to them.
She describes her work as meeting people where they are and treating each person as the expert on their own life.
Background and approach
Pamela draws on client-centered methods to listen deeply and understand each person's goals and values. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. Pamela also uses emotionally-focused ideas to help people clarify feelings and improve close connections.
Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to help people stay grounded and notice the present moment. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone wants to find the drive to change or build new habits. Her background includes experience with trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, foster and adoptive family dynamics, grief and loss, compassion fatigue, and career or life transitions.
Pamela is comfortable addressing intimacy-related issues, anger, self-esteem struggles, and challenges connected to family of origin and blended families. She can talk about faith and faith-related wounds when that is important to a client, offering a faith-informed perspective for those who request it. Sessions are available in English and are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Pamela practices from Idaho and holds the LPC credential.
Integrating practical approaches with online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding your values and goals. The therapist makes space for you to tell your story and helps identify what matters most so planning can follow from your priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice patterns of thinking and behavior that get in the way. It often includes trying small experiments between sessions to test new ways of thinking and acting, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges.
Emotionally-focused ideas help people name and track feelings that influence relationships and personal choices. This approach can be useful when intimacy, attachment, or family dynamics are part of the concern.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Pamela will work together with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, pace, and preferences, and she may combine tools from several approaches as needed.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or to use written reflection as part of the work. These formats offer flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, and everyday demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Idaho
- Languages
- English
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