About Audra
Audra Vance helps people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and depression. She brings a calm, compassionate presence and aims to make therapy practical and relevant to day-to-day life. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor in South Carolina and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor in North Carolina with 27 years of experience.
Audra focuses on straightforward skill-building so people can manage emotions and solve problems on their own.
Background and approach
Her approach emphasizes compassion and acceptance while tailoring sessions to each person's needs. She works with practical goals like setting boundaries, improving communication, and increasing motivation. Sessions often include exercises to strengthen coping skills and build confidence.
Audra also supports concerns related to adoption and foster care, blended family issues, caregiver stress, codependency, fertility questions, end-of-life and hospice counseling, and grief linked to divorce or loss. She addresses family of origin patterns, control issues, and feelings of emptiness or guilt in clear, manageable steps.
Clients can expect a collaborative relationship that focuses on identifying strengths and using them to create change. The work is goal-oriented and paced to fit each person's life. Audra encourages taking small, achievable steps toward a more satisfying daily routine.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can help when stress, anxiety, or low motivation get in the way of daily life.Client-Centered Therapy centers on the person's experience and builds a trusting, nonjudgmental relationship. This approach supports growth by listening carefully and helping people find their own solutions to problems like parenting strain or grief.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on how thoughts affect feelings and behavior and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing stress through concrete exercises and behavior changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Audra will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adapts strategies over time so the plan matches what a person needs and what actually helps.
Online sessions can make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging offer short check-ins and flexible communication between longer sessions. These options help people maintain progress without extensive travel or schedule changes.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, South Carolina
- Languages
- English