About Goldie
Goldie Oakes, LPC, offers calm, practical support for people coping with stress and anxiety. She focuses on helping clients handle strong emotions and regain daily functioning. Her approach aims to make therapy feel understandable and usable for life outside sessions.
Goldie brings 19 years of experience in mental health work in Virginia. She uses a mix of client-centered conversation alongside cognitive behavioral ideas to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She also draws on emotionally-focused methods and mindfulness practices to help with intense feelings and relationship struggles. Sessions may include simple skills practice, short homework tasks, and journaling to reinforce what is discussed. Clients sometimes work on breathing and mindfulness exercises and try small behavior experiments between meetings.
The goal is steady, practical progress rather than quick fixes. Goldie has experience supporting people facing grief, depression, addiction, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, self-esteem problems, anger, and life transitions. She also addresses concerns like abandonment, codependency, caregiver stress, and family of origin issues.
These areas are woven into sessions in ways that match each person's situation. She offers therapy in English and provides sessions via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Costs vary by location and a subscription model is used that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and then sessions are scheduled according to therapist availability.
How Goldie's approaches work online
Goldie uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral therapy to help people sort through problems and build new habits. Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding each person's perspective so sessions feel personal and responsive. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches small behavioral experiments to change patterns that worsen anxiety or depression.She also uses emotionally-focused techniques to help with intense feelings and relationship-related struggles. This approach helps people notice emotions, name them, and try new ways of responding when stress or grief feels overwhelming. Together these approaches aim to be practical and collaborative so treatment fits each person's goals.
Online therapy makes these methods accessible through several formats. Video calls let the therapist and client work face to face when visual cues are helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer quick, ongoing support between sessions and can suit those who prefer writing to speaking. These options allow scheduling flexibility and make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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