About Zelma
Zelma Higgs helps people navigate anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, trauma, and stress. She also supports those facing parenting challenges, intimacy questions, grief, and identity concerns such as LGBT issues. Zelma introduces herself simply and directly so people know what to expect in a first conversation.
She uses plain talk and steady listening in sessions. Zelma encourages people to name what is hardest and to try small, practical steps between meetings.
Background and approach
The work focuses on everyday changes that make life feel more manageable over time. With seven years of clinical experience, Zelma has worked with a range of concerns including ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses topics like communication problems, commitment worries, and feelings of emptiness or shame.
Her background includes practice in North Carolina and Texas as reflected in her LCMHC and LPC credentials. In the room she aims to build an open, nonjudgmental space where people can share thoughts and feelings. Sessions are collaborative - she asks questions, offers ideas, and checks what feels useful.
Many people appreciate concrete tools for coping alongside reflective conversation. Starting therapy can feel hard, and Zelma acknowledges that first step. She guides each person through a simple plan tailored to their goals, whether that means short-term coaching or longer work on patterns that keep repeating.
Evidence-informed approaches and online care
Zelma draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that combine practical skills and reflective work. She often uses structured, skill-focused methods to teach coping strategies for anxiety, stress, and mood regulation, helping people build routines and tools that reduce day-to-day distress. She also incorporates supportive, exploratory conversation to address relationship patterns, intimacy questions, identity concerns, and grief.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try methods that fit those aims. If something does not feel helpful, she adjusts the plan so sessions stay useful and relevant to what the person needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues for deeper conversations, while phone sessions can be easier when a shorter check-in is needed or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing coaching, quick reflections between sessions, or a way to process thoughts when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules and still keep progress moving forward.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Texas
- Languages
- English