About Tenethrea
Tenethrea Buffington is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 17 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and relationship struggles. She works with individuals facing anger, low self-esteem, motivation problems, and life transitions. Her approach centers on practical steps clients can use right away.
Tenethrea believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths to the work. She focuses on building those strengths while offering guidance and concrete tools.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to clarify what matters to the client and identify small changes that add up over time. She has supported clients dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career challenges, and mood disorders such as depression and bipolar. She also addresses attention and focus issues like ADHD and anxiety presentations including panic attacks and social anxiety.
Practical skills are part of sessions alongside conversations about meaning and values. Tenethrea helps people practice new ways of communicating, coping with difficult emotions, and repairing strained relationships. Work can include addressing family of origin issues, blended family stress, and the fallout from separation or divorce.
Her style is straightforward and encouraging. She helps people set realistic goals and track progress. The aim is better daily functioning, improved self-regard, and clearer next steps when life changes feel overwhelming.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Tenethrea uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One approach helps people identify unhelpful thought patterns and practice new responses so anxiety, panic, and low mood become easier to manage. Another approach emphasizes skills for managing strong emotions, improving anger control, and building healthier communication in relationships.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. She works collaboratively to match methods to each person’s needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients help set goals and Tenethrea suggests exercises and steps to try between sessions.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief exchanges, and messaging supports ongoing check-ins and coaching-style prompts. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it simpler to get consistent support.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English