About Goldie
Goldie Oakes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and difficult life changes. She works with adults facing relationship and parenting challenges, substance concerns, and trauma-related struggles. Her style is direct and practical, focused on building skills that make daily life easier.
Goldie brings 19 years of clinical experience from practice in Virginia. She blends several approaches to meet each person's needs, using straightforward talk therapy together with skill-building exercises.
How Goldie works
Many clients do short practical homework between sessions like journaling, breathing practice, or targeted reading. Her work often includes cognitive behavioral ideas that examine thoughts and behaviors, plus emotionally focused techniques to address relationship and attachment concerns. Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing support engagement and sustained change.
She may suggest specific exercises to try between appointments to test what works in real life. Goldie also integrates faith-based values when clients request that perspective. When faith is part of a person's life, she can suggest scripture reflection or spiritually oriented reading alongside therapeutic tools.
She aims to help each person reconnect with sources of meaning while learning new coping skills. Sessions are practical and goal-oriented. Goldie focuses on small, achievable steps to reduce distress and improve functioning.
Her approach emphasizes collaboration, steady skill practice, and regular review of progress so people can see change over time.
Goldie lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Goldie works with
The areas below are the ones Goldie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
How therapy approaches translate online
Goldie often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening and responding to each person's needs so they feel understood and supported. This approach helps with stress, grief, and issues that need time and reflection.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is practical and suits concerns like anxiety, depression, addictions, and motivation problems because it targets clear skills and homework tasks.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, try out techniques, and adjust the plan as needed. Together they pick the methods that fit the person's situation and preferences rather than using a fixed program.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different days and routines. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be used when bandwidth is limited, chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting work, caregiving, or travel commitments.
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