About MaRanda
MaRanda Gilmore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana who helps people facing relationship strain, anxiety, stress, and life transitions. She centers conversations on each person's strengths and choices. She offers calm, direct support for those who want clearer direction and more connection in their daily life.
In sessions she listens first and asks practical questions to clarify what matters most. She uses goal-focused steps to address patterns that cause pain.
Background and approach
That might include small behavior changes, communication practice, or reframing stressful thoughts. Her background includes 11 years of professional experience working with concerns such as addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, and career stress. She also supports people dealing with body image, attachment wounds, commitment worries, and impulsive behaviors.
MaRanda brings steady attention to both immediate problems and longer patterns that keep people stuck. Her work draws on client-centered methods that make room for each person's priorities. She pairs that with cognitive-behavioral techniques to shift thinking and emotion-focused tools to improve closeness and intimacy.
Trauma-focused and solution-focused ideas are used when they fit the client's goals. Conversations are practical and collaborative. MaRanda helps people break concerns into manageable steps and tracks progress along the way.
She encourages realistic experiments outside sessions and returns to what worked and what needs adjusting.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered work focuses on the person's priorities, offering a listening space where goals come from the client. This approach helps when someone needs validation, clearer direction, or a place to sort out their story.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors maintain problems. Online sessions use thought tracking, simple experiments, and skill practice to reduce anxiety, depression, or stress-related patterns.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy supports improving emotional connection and intimacy. In virtual sessions this can mean guided conversations, role practice, and learning new ways to express needs and respond to a partner or family member.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick approaches that match goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted as needed based on what proves helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video suits deeper conversations and nonverbal cues. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options give flexibility to fit sessions into busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English