About Myrna
Myrna Pledger is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) based in Illinois with 21 years of experience. She brings long-term clinical experience into sessions and centers faith as a part of care when clients prefer it. Her approach aims to help people move from feeling stuck toward more manageable days.
Early in her career she worked in school settings with children showing aggressive or disruptive behavior. That experience shaped her view that difficult behaviors often exist inside family systems.
How Myrna works
She helps people look at patterns learned in the family and how those patterns affect current relationships. Myrna focuses on helping survivors of narcissistic abuse and others who have faced physical or emotional trauma. She also addresses depression, anxiety, relationship stress, parenting challenges, grief, addiction concerns, and life transitions.
Additional interests include codependency, commitment issues, isolation, multicultural concerns, and end-of-life counseling. Her style is described as truth-based, educational, and kind. She uses practical, solution-focused work and adapts conversation and plans to each person.
Cognitive techniques and acceptance ideas are mixed with deeper exploration of attachment and meaning. Sessions can reflect a faith perspective when clients want that included. Myrna emphasizes clear examples and steps people can try between meetings.
She invites those ready for change to take a first step toward more stability and clearer boundaries.
Myrna lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Myrna works with
The areas below are the ones Myrna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Myrna often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them. ACT focuses on values and small committed actions, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This work helps people understand intimacy issues, codependency, and how to build safer connections with others.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will work collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals and preferences. That may mean blending acceptance, cognitive techniques, or client-centered conversation until a comfortable fit emerges.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper work that benefits from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions are practical when bandwidth or camera use is difficult. Chat and messaging can offer brief check-ins, journaling prompts, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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