About Dennisha
Dennisha Pauley is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina. She offers calm, respectful support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, or parenting and relationship concerns. Her tone is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping someone take the next step when life feels hard.
She draws on about 10 years of clinical experience alongside a longer history in mental health. Dennisha adapts sessions to each person's situation instead of using a fixed script.
How Dennisha works
That means practical skills, emotional exploration, or both, depending on what a person needs. Her approach combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and client-centered work. She uses these methods to address things like sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, and coping with life changes or caregiving stress.
Dennisha also supports people facing abandonment issues, attachment struggles, blended family challenges, chronic illness, cancer-related stress, and dissociation. She works with issues tied to communication, commitment, codependency, and intimacy-related worries. Sessions are shaped around clear goals and practical steps.
Dennisha focuses on what can be tried between meetings as well as what gets addressed in the room. Her aim is to help people build coping skills and move toward the life they want.
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What Dennisha works with
The areas below are the ones Dennisha selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| 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 sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while taking steps toward what matters to them. Online ACT sessions often include values clarification and small behavioral experiments to try between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that maintain problems and teaches practical tools to change them, which works well over video or phone when reviewing homework and practicing skills. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness; online DBT-style work can include skills coaching, role plays, and step-by-step practice tailored to daily life.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Dennisha works collaboratively to identify goals, then suggests approaches and homework that match a person’s needs and preferences. If something isn’t working, she will adjust methods so sessions stay useful and focused on progress.
Online formats offer flexibility for different routines and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins or on-the-go moments, and text-based messaging supports brief updates and between-session coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping attention on practical steps and emotional change.
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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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