About Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn Boyd-McGhee helps people navigate stress, anxiety, mood disorders, addiction concerns, and relationship or family strain. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, based in Texas and works with adults on practical goals. Her style is direct and listening-focused to make each session useful from the start.
She uses clear, walk-through methods to build coping skills for daily life. Sessions often focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors.
Background and approach
Gwendolyn aims for straightforward tools clients can use between appointments. Her approach is guided by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy alongside client-centered and solution-focused ideas. That mix helps people notice what matters, challenge patterns that hold them back, and set short steps toward change.
She explains techniques in plain language and adapts them to each person. Gwendolyn spent three years working in counseling roles before joining an online practice serving Texas and international clients. She draws on hands-on experience helping people with trauma, grief, addiction, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and career or life transitions.
Her work also addresses issues like codependency, impulse control, and compassion fatigue. In sessions she focuses on partnership and small, measurable progress. People who want practical strategies and a calm, listening presence often find this approach helpful.
She supports planning next steps and tracking what improves over time.
How her therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what truly matters to them and then take small actions toward those values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation struggles by focusing less on fighting thoughts and more on meaningful action.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, sleep problems, and coping with stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with clients about goals and preferences and try methods that fit the person's needs. That collaborative process helps shape what happens in sessions and between meetings.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help clients maintain consistency and adapt therapy to their daily routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English