About Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn Boyd-McGhee helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, mood shifts, or difficulties with addiction. She meets each person where they are and focuses on practical steps that make daily life easier. Her style is warm and straightforward, with an emphasis on listening and collaboration.
Gwendolyn is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas. She draws on methods that help people change unhelpful patterns and build new skills.
How Gwendolyn works
Sessions often center on identifying small, manageable goals and trying out concrete strategies between meetings. Her work addresses a wide range of concerns including depression, bipolar symptoms, attention challenges, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma and substance use. She also supports people dealing with parenting stress, career transitions, loneliness, guilt, and problems with communication or boundaries.
In sessions she uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to challenge tricky thoughts and from acceptance-based work to clarify values and reduce struggle. Solution-focused ideas guide short-term goals, while a client-centered attitude keeps each plan tailored to the person in front of her.
Gwendolyn aims to help clients build coping skills such as sleep routines, anger management techniques, and practical plans for mood and impulse control. She emphasizes steady progress and real-world practice to help translate insight into change.
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What Gwendolyn works with
The areas below are the ones Gwendolyn selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approaches for online counseling and practical change
Gwendolyn commonly draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. ACT focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with clearer, more useful ways of seeing situations.She brings a client-centered attitude to this work, so finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those goals. If something does not feel helpful, they adjust the plan together.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make regular care easier to fit into life. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps keep momentum between meetings. These options make it simpler to schedule sessions around work, family, or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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