About Garlena
Garlena Rumsey is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Idaho with four decades of experience. She frames her work around respect and dignity, and draws on a long history of helping people navigate trauma, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. She uses straightforward, practical strategies in sessions.
Garlena listens first, then offers tools that fit each person. Her background includes work in shelter care, foster care, and group homes, which shaped her focus on safety and steady progress.
How Garlena works
Garlena blends several approaches to meet real needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people change unhelpful thinking and behaviors. Narrative Therapy helps people tell and reshape the stories they carry.
Mindfulness practices support noticing thoughts and emotions without getting overwhelmed. Sessions aim to build skills, set clear goals, and track small changes over time. She also uses motivational interviewing to support people who feel stuck and to encourage steps toward healthier habits.
Her practice welcomes people facing grief, addictions, relationship stress, parenting strain, body image and eating concerns, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and first responder issues. Garlena describes her work as collaborative and practical, meeting people where they are and helping them move forward.
Garlena lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Garlena works with
The areas below are the ones Garlena selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Idaho |
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Online support options
Approaches and what online therapy can look like
Garlena often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can ease anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day problems. She also draws on Narrative Therapy to help people reframe the stories they tell about themselves and their lives, useful for trauma, grief, and identity concerns. Mindfulness practices are used to build awareness of thoughts and bodily sensations and to reduce reactivity.Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will work with the client to pick and adapt methods based on needs, goals, and what feels comfortable. Sessions focus on small, practical steps and regular check-ins to make sure the work is helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into busy days. Video calls approximate face-to-face conversation while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, step-by-step planning, or continuing work between longer sessions. These options offer flexibility and make it simpler to keep therapy consistent over time.
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