About Vanessa
Vanessa Glatt is an LPCC with nine years of clinical experience. She has worked in different mental health settings and helps people facing anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, addiction, and childhood trauma. She meets people with a warm, nonjudgmental style.
Sessions focus on practical steps you can use right away. Vanessa encourages clients to learn how their minds work and to reduce the stigma around seeking help. Vanessa uses mindfulness and thinking skills to help people reconnect with a steadier sense of self.
Background and approach
She blends approaches to match each person's needs instead of using a single method for everyone. She also encourages attention to physical self-care, noting how body and mind influence each other. In sessions she helps people get present with their thoughts and feelings and then tries out strategies to ease avoidable pain.
She believes some suffering has meaning, but that people can also change unhelpful patterns that add stress. Her work covers a wide range of concerns including relationships, intimacy-related issues, parenting strain, career stress, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include attachment and abandonment issues, communication problems, body image, divorce and separation, and forgiveness.
People who want a straightforward, collaborative approach that mixes mindfulness, problem solving, and practical skills tend to find her style helpful. She works in California and conducts sessions in English.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without being driven by them and then commit to actions that match their values; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person in the room, using empathy and listening to help people feel understood and to guide their own change.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, symptoms, and preferences and together decide which methods to try first. Adjustments are made along the way so the plan fits the person's life and needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for full conversations and when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging can fit into a busy day and allow ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, California
- Languages
- English