About Connie
Connie Fleming is a licensed professional counselor with 30 years of experience helping people through hard seasons. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, ADHD, and major life changes. Connie aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for busy people and worried parents.
Connie uses clear, down-to-earth language in sessions. She listens first, then helps people set small, doable steps toward change. She emphasizes coping skills that can be used between meetings and helps clients build routines that support daily functioning.
Background and approach
Her background includes long experience in family-related concerns such as parenting strain, blended family issues, adoption and foster care dynamics, and fatherhood issues. She also works with attachment and abandonment themes, caregiver stress, codependency, and communication problems. Grief and forgiveness are recurring focuses in her practice.
Clinically, she draws from acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral strategies, emotionally-focused tools, client-centered listening, and EMDR when appropriate. Sessions are paced to match each person’s needs and goals rather than following a rigid plan. Connie practices in Alabama as an AL LPC.
She offers therapy in English and provides multiple online formats for convenience. Her style is steady, compassionate, and practical, intended to help people feel more capable in everyday life.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Connie commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and focus on actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and making changes during life transitions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT is practical and skills-based, often useful for stress, worry, and low mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Connie will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then combine methods that fit their situation. This is a collaborative process and plans can change as needs shift.
Online therapy with her is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins, notes between sessions, and flexible communication during a busy week.
These formats make it easier to fit therapy into family schedules, work breaks, or times when traveling to an office would be difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to work well in each format so progress continues between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English