- 20 years experience
- Parenting support
- Trauma and abuse
About Cecelia
Her background includes work with adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, blended family challenges, and parenting struggles. She also supports people coping with anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, anger, and compassion fatigue. First responder issues, postpartum depression, and social anxiety are additional areas she addresses.
In sessions she uses a mix of approaches to fit each person. Her toolkit draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered techniques, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. She focuses on meeting people where they are and building a plan that matches their needs and goals.
Cecelia brings developmental insight to her work and experience with play-based methods that inform how she helps both younger clients and adults. She also has experience with animal-assisted and equine-assisted interventions and believes nature can be healing for many people.
Parenting support and coaching form a core part of her practice. She offers practical strategies to improve communication and reduce family stress during separations, blended family transitions, or adoption and foster care situations. She also provides guidance to help children manage changes and to reduce household conflict.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on values and committed action. It helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing steps that matter to them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and uses empathic listening to help people feel understood and to guide growth.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best based on their goals, challenges, and preferences. That decision can change as progress is made, and sessions are adjusted together.
Confirm the therapist’s current online session options before booking, since formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and reduce travel time for people balancing work or caregiving. Licensed professionals can use these approaches in remote sessions to teach skills, practice new behaviors, and support coping during life transitions.
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she commonly address?
Cecelia focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, and compassion fatigue. She also helps with parenting, family problems, adoption and foster care issues, and first responder related stress.
How would you describe her therapy style?
She uses a practical, collaborative style and meets people where they are. Sessions blend client-centered listening with structured techniques from ACT, CBT, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing.
What is her professional background?
She completed undergraduate work in psychology and a master’s in counseling at UNC Charlotte and has over 20 years of clinical experience with children, adolescents, and adults.
What credentials does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with licensure in South Carolina and Georgia and practices from North Carolina.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. The therapist’s profile should be checked for up-to-date session format details.
How are fees and getting started handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on the therapist’s availability.