About Pamela
Pamela Grove Gougelman is a licensed clinical social worker based in Florida with 30 years of practice. She focuses on helping people facing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and the fallout from trauma. Her manner is steady and practical, aimed at helping people get through hard moments and find clearer routines and goals.
She draws on several evidence-informed approaches to shape sessions. Conversations center on what the person is feeling now and what they want to change.
Background and approach
Pamela uses straightforward tools to manage symptoms, build coping skills, and improve day-to-day functioning. Her background includes long experience with chronic stress, caregiving strain, and life transitions. That makes her familiar with challenges linked to chronic illness, aging and bereavement.
She also works with people dealing with relationship strain, parenting stress, and work or career concerns. Sessions often focus on skill building for emotion regulation, clearer communication, and healthier boundaries. Pamela helps people address phobias by breaking overwhelming problems into smaller, manageable steps.
She emphasizes practical plans clients can try between meetings. People find her approach collaborative and paced to their needs. She aims to help clients strengthen self-understanding and return to daily life with more confidence and steadier routines.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Pamela commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that fit their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Pamela collaborates with each person to decide which methods feel most useful based on their goals, symptoms, and daily life. She adapts techniques to match how someone prefers to work, whether that means practical exercises, homework, or in-session practice.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people have a more face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messages allow shorter check-ins, quick coping prompts, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different lifestyles.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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