About Lawanda
Dr. Lawanda Hall welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by stress, life changes, or strained relationships. She writes in plain terms and helps clients build skills to manage anxiety, grief, anger, and low self-esteem.
Her approach centers on practical steps and steady support so people can feel more capable day to day. With 21 years of experience, Dr. Hall is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee.
She holds a doctorate in Behavioral Health and draws on multiple methods to match each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on developing awareness, clearer communication, and ways to cope that fit real life. In the room she guides people through short-term problem solving and longer-term change. She uses solution-focused methods to set concrete goals and cognitive-behavioral ideas to notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and habits.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about next steps. Dr. Hall also addresses issues tied to caregiving, chronic illness, adoption and foster care experiences, and attachment or abandonment concerns.
She works with relationship and intimacy-related issues, career stress, and compassion fatigue for caregivers. Her style is encouraging and straightforward. She helps clients learn skills, practice them between sessions, and track small wins.
If someone wants a therapist who combines practical tools with steady encouragement, she may be a good fit.
Online approaches that fit your life
Dr. Hall uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person’s unique concerns, listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most to the individual. This approach helps people feel heard and guides practical next steps for relationship and life stressors.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. CBT offers concrete exercises to reduce anxiety, tackle negative thinking, and build routines that improve daily functioning.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client decide together which methods to try, adjust based on what is working, and set clear goals along the way. That means plans change if a different approach seems like a better fit for the person’s needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help progress. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing support easier to fit into a busy day. These options make scheduling more flexible and help maintain momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English