About Gena
Gena Taylor-Tidwell is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPC) practicing in Kentucky. She brings four years of clinical experience and aims to create a calm, approachable space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, depression, and life transitions. Gena writes plainly and uses a relaxed tone to make conversations feel less intimidating.
Her first session focuses on understanding why someone is seeking help and setting clear, realistic goals.
Background and approach
She uses practical tools to challenge unhelpful thinking and to build better ways of coping. Sessions can include hands-on exercises and take-home resources to support progress between meetings. Gena blends structure with warmth.
She keeps sessions focused and goal-oriented while allowing room for humor when it fits. This mix helps people stay engaged while learning new skills to manage strong emotions. Specific methods commonly used include techniques from cognitive behavioral approaches and skills drawn from dialectical behavior work.
These methods target patterns of thinking and teach emotion regulation, problem-solving, and stress management skills. People who prefer clear steps and concrete practices may find this approach helpful. Gena adapts recommendations to fit each person's needs and offers tools that can be used outside sessions.
She aims to make therapy understandable and useful for everyday life.
Online approaches and how they fit your life
Gena commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques that focus on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. This approach helps with anxiety, depression, and everyday stress by teaching practical ways to reframe thinking and test new behaviors. She also draws from dialectical behavior methods that emphasize emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to help manage strong feelings and improve reactions to conflict.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to pick techniques that match their goals and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress unfolds. Sessions begin with a clear plan and regular check-ins so changes can be made together when something isn't working.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, giving flexibility for different routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing check-ins between appointments. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, school, and family life while keeping focused on practical tools and skill building.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky, Oregon
- Languages
- English