About Velma
Velma Gettelman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, or major life changes. Velma uses a warm, nonjudgmental approach that aims to make difficult conversations easier to have.
Clients can expect clear, practical talk in sessions. Velma listens first and helps people name what matters most to them.
Background and approach
She frames goals in simple steps and adjusts the pace to fit each person’s rhythm. Her background spans many settings across two decades, working with people facing trauma, low self-esteem, parenting challenges, anger, ADHD, and mood concerns such as bipolar. That experience shapes a flexible way of working rather than a single technique.
Velma blends client-centered listening with practical strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing, among other approaches. She helps people notice thought patterns, try small behavior changes, and strengthen important relationships. Sessions focus on concrete needs like communication skills, managing strong feelings, setting boundaries, coping after separation, and finding meaning during life transitions.
Velma encourages steady progress one step at a time and supports people who want to make lasting changes.
How Velma’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s perspective. The therapist offers empathy and acceptance while you set the pace and goals, which helps with confidence and self-understanding.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. Sessions often include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depression.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name strong emotions and improve connection in close relationships. It is useful for repairing communication and reducing repeated conflict cycles.
Finding the right fit is part of the work. Velma will collaborate with each person to choose approaches that match their goals and preferences. She adjusts tools and pacing as needs become clearer during early sessions.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for a fuller sense of nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or work better with lower bandwidth, and chat or text support ongoing check-ins between appointments. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around work, school, or parenting and to continue steady progress without added travel time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English