About Genera
Genera Gilliam is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and depression. She also supports people dealing with trauma, relationship and family struggles, eating concerns, anger, career questions, bipolar mood issues, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
Genera brings 16 years of professional experience to her work and keeps things straightforward and practical. She uses a client-centered approach that focuses on the person first.
How Genera works
That means sessions aim to reflect the client's perspective and move at a comfortable pace. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behavior, and solution-focused ideas to set clear goals and small steps forward. Genera prefers to involve a person’s support network when it will help reach goals.
She emphasizes collaboration and clear goal-setting so the work is concrete and measurable. Therapy sessions explore patterns in thinking, identify small experiments to try between visits, and build skills for handling stress and strong emotions. Her background includes work in schools, agencies, and independent practice settings where she provided individual and group counseling.
Genera holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Arts in Counseling from North Carolina Central University. She is licensed in North Carolina as an LCMHC. The overall aim is steady, practical change.
She helps people clarify what matters, try new ways of coping, and notice progress along the way.
Genera lists 4 ways of working on the entry:
What Genera works with
The areas below are the ones Genera 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
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Genera’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s experience and goals. In sessions the therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and shapes the pace to fit the client's needs. This approach helps people who want understanding and a collaborative plan to move forward.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. The therapist helps identify unhelpful thoughts, test them, and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, panic, or mood swings. CBT is useful for building concrete skills and changing patterns that cause distress.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to manage stress and strong emotions. It can help with anxiety, panic attacks, and staying grounded during difficult moments. Sessions introduce short exercises that can be used between meetings to notice reactions and choose responses more calmly.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods as progress is made. This collaborative process helps tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for brief check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support and tracking progress. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, check in during stressful times, and keep steady momentum toward goals.
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