About Goldie
Goldie Oakes is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and changes that feel overwhelming. She writes and talks plainly with clients, aiming to restore motivation and everyday functioning. Goldie frames therapy in ways that connect feelings to daily life.
She brings 19 years of clinical experience from work in Virginia. That background informs a practical style that mixes structured techniques with reflective practices.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill practice and short written exercises to reinforce what is learned. Goldie combines cognitive behavioral methods with emotionally-focused work and motivational interviewing to address symptoms and patterns that keep people stuck. Mindfulness practices are used to calm intense feelings and to strengthen attention when reacting to stress.
These methods are offered alongside personal values and, when clients prefer, faith-based reflection. Therapy with her typically involves setting clear goals, trying small experiments between sessions, and reviewing progress together. Homework can include journaling, skill drills, or reading that supports the session work.
This makes therapy an active process rather than only talk. Her areas of focus include depression, addictions, relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses specific issues such as abandonment, codependency, caregiver stress, and communication problems.
Goldie aims to help people build steadier routines and more satisfying connections.
How her methods translate to online therapy
Goldie uses cognitive behavioral methods to help identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT tends to focus on small, practical experiments and skill practice that translate well to short assignments between sessions. Emotionally-focused therapy targets patterns in close relationships and helps people notice and respond differently to strong feelings in the moment. This work can be supported in conversation during video or phone sessions and through written exercises. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and calm stress. These exercises are easy to practice between sessions and can be guided over the phone or video.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful, then adjust methods as progress is tracked. Clients and the therapist review what helps and what needs changing so the plan stays relevant.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick check-ins, brief skill prompts, or ongoing journaling between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English