About Velma
Velma Gettelman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 20 years of experience. She offers calm, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and ADHD. Her tone is warm and direct, and she focuses on helping people take small, doable steps toward feeling better.
Velma centers sessions on respect and curiosity. She listens without judgment and helps clients clarify what matters most to them.
Background and approach
Conversations are interactive, with a mix of talking, problem solving, and simple skill-building that clients can use between sessions. Her approach draws from several well-known methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps spot unhelpful thinking and change behaviors.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name and work through strong feelings that affect relationships. Client-Centered Therapy keeps the client's goals and values at the center of the work. Velma has worked in a variety of settings across her career and has supported people through trauma, low self-esteem, grief, and major life changes.
She also addresses specific concerns like anger, bipolar mood concerns, and issues around abandonment and attachment. Sessions aim to match practical strategies to each person's life. Velma helps clients set clear goals, practice new skills, and measure small improvements.
She encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes and supports people as they try new ways of coping.
Approach and online options that fit your life
Velma uses Client-Centered Therapy to keep each session focused on the client's needs and values, creating space for people to speak and be heard without judgment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build practical skills to change patterns that contribute to anxiety, low mood, or difficulties with focus. Emotionally-Focused Therapy supports people who are working through strong emotions that affect relationships and connection.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Velma will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. She treats the decision as a collaboration and adjusts methods as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls are well suited for fuller conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit check-ins into a busy day or to share thoughts between scheduled appointments. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while juggling family, work, or school.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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