About Verna
Verna Nichols Foust, LPC, offers support for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and related concerns. She helps with self-esteem struggles and with coping through major life changes like divorce and grief. Her writing and manner invite people who feel overwhelmed to take a first step toward relief.
Verna focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day. She listens for what matters most to each person and adapts sessions to those priorities.
Background and approach
People can expect calm, straightforward conversation and strategies they can try between meetings. Her work covers a wide range of concerns beyond core anxiety and depression. That includes panic and social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive patterns, posttraumatic stress, and issues tied to shame, guilt, or forgiveness.
She also addresses relationship communication problems, isolation and caregiver stress, and life transitions such as pregnancy, postpartum, and divorce. Verna has experience supporting people with chronic pain and illness, and she works with first responders and those coping with personality-related challenges. She emphasizes respect for each person’s values and spiritual concerns when relevant.
Sessions are conducted with a compassionate, nonjudgmental tone. Verna encourages clients to move at their own pace while working toward clearer goals and better daily functioning. Her goal is to walk alongside clients as they build the skills and insights that make life more manageable.
Therapeutic methods and how they work online
Verna uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, usable tools people can apply between sessions. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches breathing, grounding, and activity planning to reduce anxiety and manage panic episodes. These techniques give clients short exercises to practice when stress rises.Another approach emphasizes processing difficult experiences in small, paced steps to reduce overwhelm. This helps people manage trauma reactions, guilt, and shame by naming feelings, testing new perspectives, and building tolerance for hard emotions. Work on communication skills and problem-solving is also part of this practical orientation, useful for caregiver stress, workplace issues, and relationship strains.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they’ll try methods that fit the client’s needs and adjust as therapy progresses.
Because the original biography does not list specific session formats, confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people use audio-only or lower-bandwidth options when a video call is not practical. These practical benefits help therapy fit into everyday life without adding extra strain.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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