About Trelease
Trelease Hartfield is a licensed counselor who brings 16 years of experience to her work in Georgia. She holds an MD and is credentialed as an LCPC and LPC. Trelease focuses on helping people who feel stuck by offering steady, practical guidance.
She listens first and asks clear questions to understand what matters most. Sessions aim to build small, usable skills that can reduce anxiety, ease stress, and improve mood.
Background and approach
Trelease uses straightforward tools so people can try changes outside of sessions. Her practice pays close attention to grief, loss, and life transitions, including support for people adapting to amputation and chronic illness. She also addresses relationship struggles, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and workplace or career challenges.
Trelease works with concerns like anger, panic, and low self esteem in practical terms people can apply day to day. Therapeutic approaches include cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and trauma-focused work when needed. These methods are used to identify unhelpful patterns, learn new coping skills, and process difficult memories at a comfortable pace.
Trelease encourages a collaborative pace so goals reflect each person's values and limits. She believes clients are the experts on their story and builds on existing strengths. Her style is direct, compassionate, and focused on real-life changes.
Practical approaches in online therapy
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors. It helps people manage anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and motivation by teaching concrete skills to try between sessions.Mindfulness therapy brings attention to the present moment and teaches breathing and awareness practices. It can reduce stress, lower reactivity to strong emotions, and help with chronic pain or ongoing worry.
Trauma-focused therapy works gently to process painful memories and reduce their grip on daily life. This approach helps people who have faced abuse, violence, or other traumatic events reclaim a sense of safety and control over reactions.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Trelease will discuss goals, preferences, and how each method might fit. She adjusts pace and tools based on what the client finds most helpful so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping continuity of care.
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What this counselor works with
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- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Maryland, Georgia
- Languages
- English