About Pamela
Pamela Gerdes uses a client-centered approach to help people move toward healing and wholeness. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Idaho with ten years of experience. Pamela focuses on creating a calm, respectful space where people can share hard thoughts and feelings.
Pamela helps with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and self-esteem issues. She also supports people facing relationship strain, parenting challenges, career decisions, and major life changes.
How Pamela works
Compassion fatigue, ADHD, and intimacy-related concerns are part of her usual focus. Her work blends practical strategies with emotional support. Pamela draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and solution-focused ideas to identify patterns and try small experiments that can change daily life.
She centers each session on the person's goals and strengths rather than forcing a rigid plan. Pamela also integrates Emotionally-Focused Therapy and mindfulness practices when they fit the situation. That can mean slowing down to notice sensations, naming emotions, or practicing short grounding exercises between sessions.
She prefers simple tools clients can use right away. Sessions aim to be collaborative and straightforward. Pamela listens first, clarifies what matters most, and helps design steps toward those goals.
People who want to include faith perspectives can raise that topic and explore how beliefs shape their healing.
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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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Idaho |
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Online support options
Approach-driven online care that fits your life
Pamela commonly uses client-centered work to focus on what matters most to each person. That approach centers the session on the person's priorities, listening first and letting goals guide the work. It helps when someone needs a respectful, steady space to sort out feelings and choices.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and try practical behavior experiments. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and stress because it breaks problems into small, testable steps that can change daily routines. Emotionally-Focused Therapy can be brought in when emotions and close bonds need clearer expression; it helps people name and track feelings to reduce overwhelm and improve connection.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. Pamela will discuss options and tailor techniques to the client's goals, preferences, and what works in early sessions. That collaborative planning includes trying different tools and adjusting based on feedback.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different needs. Video is good for face-to-face work, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can fit quick check-ins or brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using approaches that produce practical change.
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