About Pamela
Pamela English is a licensed professional counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and challenges from trauma or addiction. She speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps that fit each person's life. Pamela aims to make sessions feel calm and to help clients build stronger coping skills.
She uses a mix of approaches to match what an individual needs. That can mean learning new ways to manage strong emotions, naming patterns that keep returning, or practicing small behavior changes that add up.
How Pamela works
Sessions are collaborative - the client and therapist set goals and try tools together. Pamela draws on five years of clinical experience in Connecticut and holds the LPC credential, which denotes a licensed professional counselor. She works with concerns ranging from mood disorders and bipolar symptoms to eating and intimacy-related issues.
She also addresses attachment struggles, abandonment, codependency, and caregiver stress. Her style blends acceptance-based methods with cognitive and skills-focused work. Pamela may use strategies from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shift unhelpful thinking, or Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotions feel overwhelming.
Attachment-based and client-centered ways of working guide how she listens and responds. Sessions are offered in English and Pamela accepts international clients. She provides flexible online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
The focus is helping each person find steady, usable tools they can practice between meetings.
Pamela lists 15 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Pamela works with
The areas below are the ones Pamela selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
How Pamela's Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match personal values; it is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and shifting unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, which can reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety and improve day-to-day functioning. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness in moments of crisis or ongoing emotional dysregulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Pamela collaborates with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful for their goals and situation. She will test strategies together, adjust as needed, and prioritize what the client finds useful in real life.
Online therapy lets people connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is good for conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quicker check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let the therapist and client focus on skill practice and problem solving in ways that suit daily routines.
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