About Pamella
Pamella Divinity is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Louisiana. She brings ten years of clinical experience to her work and focuses on helping people who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship strain. Pamella aims to offer steady support while helping clients find practical ways to cope and move forward.
Her style is warm and direct. Sessions are solution-oriented but also allow time to process painful experiences. She can include faith perspectives when a person wants that, and she respects each person's background and values.
Background and approach
Pamella uses several approaches to shape sessions. She leans on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships influence current patterns. She also applies cognitive behavioral methods to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. Common concerns she addresses include grief, parenting strain, caregiver stress, communication problems, codependency, infidelity, and career-related stress. She also works with mood concerns such as bipolar disorder, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD), and intense anger.
Her practice includes support for people dealing with trauma, abandonment, and family of origin issues. Pamella offers a collaborative process. She helps clients set goals and tries practical steps between sessions.
People who want clear strategies mixed with empathic listening may find her approach helpful.
How these approaches work for online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at patterns formed in early relationships and how they show up now. Online sessions can help identify those patterns and practice new ways of connecting with others.Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and changing unhelpful thinking and behaviors. That approach fits well with video or phone sessions where clients and the therapist can review homework and try new strategies together.
Dialectical behavior therapy offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving distress tolerance. Brief coaching via text or live chat can reinforce those skills between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, listen to personal preferences, and adjust methods over time to match what is most helpful. Clients are invited to give feedback so the plan can change as progress is made.
Online therapy provides flexibility for different situations. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and screen-sharing of worksheets. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for short check-ins, skill reminders, or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English