About Clarissa
Clarissa Poole Parks is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Georgia. She draws on a decade of experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship strain. Her tone is warm and direct and she focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Her work blends cognitive-behavioral ideas with emotion-focused and mindfulness practices. Sessions typically include clear tools for handling overwhelming thoughts and feelings, paired with conversations that look at patterns in relationships and family life.
How Clarissa works
She also uses narrative and psychodynamic ideas to help clients make sense of old stories that keep getting in the way. Clarissa has experience supporting people dealing with trauma and abuse, parenting stress, intimacy-related concerns, and compassion fatigue. She can talk through issues such as abandonment, attachment struggles, blended family challenges, and communication problems.
She pays attention to emotions behind behaviors and helps clients find manageable next steps. Her style is approachable and nonjudgmental. People can expect respect, sensitivity, and straightforward feedback.
Sessions aim to build skills and insight, while honoring each person’s pace and goals. To begin, Clarissa asks people to describe what matters most to them and to try small, achievable changes between sessions. Over time those changes are meant to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Clarissa lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Clarissa works with
The areas below are the ones Clarissa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Georgia |
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Online support options
Approach-focused care through online therapy
Clarissa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside mindfulness practices to guide online work. CBT offers clear, practical techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior and can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on understanding and changing patterns in close relationships and is useful for improving emotional connection and handling intimacy-related issues. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and build calm in daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. She will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which combination of methods to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds, keeping the work collaborative and goal-oriented.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow deeper conversational work and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or screen time is limited, live chat and text can work for quick check-ins or brief skill practice. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different life demands.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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