About Audra
Audra Vance is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor with 27 years of experience. She helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, self-esteem, and parenting challenges. Her approach is warm and accepting, focused on practical skills that make daily life easier.
She emphasizes compassion and tailoring sessions to each person's needs. Audra aims to build a working relationship where clients feel heard and understood.
How Audra works
Together they set clear, achievable goals and practice ways to manage emotions and problems. Her work draws on several evidence-based approaches, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness practices. She uses these tools to help people notice what matters to them, change unhelpful thinking patterns, and practice present-moment skills.
Audra also brings motivational interviewing and client-centered methods into sessions to support readiness for change. She focuses on strengths so people can build confidence and solve problems on their own. Practical strategies, frequent check-ins, and steady encouragement are part of the process.
People come to her for a wide range of concerns beyond the core specialties, such as adoption and foster care issues, blended family stresses, caregiver strain, communication problems, fertility questions, end-of-life and hospice counseling, and coping after disasters. She works from North Carolina and conducts sessions in English.
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What Audra works with
The areas below are the ones Audra selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters most and take small steps toward those values even when emotions are hard. It is useful for anxiety, low motivation, grief, and stress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns, which can help with depression and anxiety. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship so people feel understood as they work through problems.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about their situation, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. This is a collaborative process and plans can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can fit short check-ins or busy schedules. These options help people access care from different places and at different times while keeping therapy practical and usable.
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