About Cerissa
Cerissa Bartlett is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and parenting challenges. She writes plainly and listens carefully, aiming to make the first steps feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
Cerissa draws on 12 years of experience working with people who struggle with mood concerns like depression, addiction issues, ADHD, and trauma and abuse. She also supports those navigating career stress, LGBT concerns, blended family issues, and postpartum depression.
Background and approach
She approaches each person as an individual and focuses on what matters most to them in daily life. In sessions she builds a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through thoughts and feelings. Conversations are practical and goal-focused, and she helps people try new ways of coping and communicating.
She tends to keep language straightforward so ideas are easy to use outside of sessions. Cerissa values cultural awareness and brings sensitivity to multicultural concerns and first responder issues. She pays attention to how background and life roles shape stress and relationships.
That attention helps make plans that fit each person's situation. People who work with Cerissa can expect collaborative goal setting and steady support while they try different strategies. She encourages small, manageable changes and checks in on what’s working.
Sessions are meant to help people gain clearer direction and more tools for handling everyday strain.
Practical approaches and online counseling options
Many clients benefit from evidence-based techniques that focus on changing thoughts and behaviors to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Cognitive-behavioral style work helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and test new ways of reacting to stress, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related struggles.Skills-based coping strategies are another common focus and involve learning concrete tools for managing emotions, building routines, and improving communication. These techniques can help with parenting stress, relationship strain, cravings in addiction, and navigating grief.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, try methods that fit their situation, and adjust plans based on what helps. That partnership aims to make changes feel achievable rather than overwhelming.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a brief check-in, and messaging supports ongoing contact and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Depression
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English