About Pamela
Pamela Thompson is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Mental Health Service Provider with 30 years of experience. She listens without judgment and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Pamela works with adults facing anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, grief, relationship strain, and related life stresses.
She uses straightforward conversation to help people clarify what matters to them. Sessions center on the person's goals and daily realities, not complex jargon.
Background and approach
Pamela adapts the pace and plan so people leave with tools they can try between sessions. Her approach blends client-centered methods with cognitive behavioral strategies and mindfulness. That means conversations focus on personal values, changing unhelpful patterns, and building awareness of thoughts and feelings.
Motivational interviewing and narrative ideas are woven in when someone wants to make a behavior change or revisit difficult life stories. Pamela has worked in Tennessee settings for three decades and has experience across many issues, including addictions, eating and sleeping problems, caregiving stress, and concerns tied to chronic illness.
She also supports people coping with career changes, loss, and questions about identity. People who choose Pamela typically want respectful, steady support and clear steps to try between meetings. She aims to help people feel more capable of handling day-to-day challenges and to move toward goals that matter to them.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. The therapist follows the person's lead, offers empathic listening, and helps the person decide what matters most to work on. This approach suits people who want supportive, nonjudgmental space to sort through decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. It uses clear exercises and homework to test new ways of thinking and acting, which can help with anxiety, depression, ADHD-related routines, and sleep or eating issues. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple practices to notice thoughts and bodily sensations without getting swept up in them, which can reduce stress and improve focus.
Choosing an approach is collaborative: the therapist will talk with the person about their goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. Changes are paced to what a person can manage and may combine techniques from different approaches to match the situation.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and seeing facial cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can provide short check-ins or coaching between appointments, and messaging is useful for brief updates or when a written reflection is easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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