About Pamela
Pamela Grove Gougelman is a licensed clinical social worker in Florida with 30 years of practice. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and the strain of life changes. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at making therapy manageable for worried people.
Pamela focuses on building practical skills. Sessions often include learning ways to cope with sleep problems, anger, addictive behaviors, and low self-esteem. She also helps people sort through relationship issues, career stress, parenting challenges, and compassion fatigue.
How Pamela works
Her work blends several approaches to fit each person. Pamela uses acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and take action. She uses cognitive-behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors.
Pamela pays attention to attachment patterns and emotional responses. That helps when people are healing from abandonment, attachment issues, or trauma and abuse. She also brings dialectical behavior strategies for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness.
Clients can expect a steady, empathetic clinician who offers clear options and concrete steps. Pamela aims to help people build stronger coping habits and better daily routines. Her practice welcomes people seeking steady support and practical change.
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)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic 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
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward a life that matters to them. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry, low mood, and sleep problems. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving interpersonal communication, and reducing impulsive or self-harming behaviors.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Pamela will discuss goals and preferences, try techniques in session, and adjust the plan based on what helps. This collaborative process aims to match methods to the person rather than using a single fixed model.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging adds practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversation. Phone sessions can be a good fit when lower bandwidth or no camera is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, homework support, or times when short written exchanges fit a busy schedule. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and travel.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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