About Vanessa
Vanessa Glatt is an LPCC - Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor - with nine years of practice in mental health. She draws on experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, ADHD, and trauma. Her way of working is warm and nonjudgmental, aimed at helping people feel heard and understood.
Vanessa keeps sessions straightforward. She helps clients notice their thoughts and feelings in the moment and use practical tools to reduce distress.
How Vanessa works
Mindfulness and simple thinking skills are common parts of her sessions. She also encourages attention to physical self-care, given how often body and mind influence each other. Her approach mixes several methods to match each person’s needs.
This might include acceptance and commitment ideas to help clarify values, cognitive-behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking, and EMDR for processing past traumatic events when appropriate. The focus is on what helps someone move forward, not on labels. Vanessa pays attention to relationship and intimacy concerns, family stress, parenting challenges, and career-related strain.
She also addresses issues like body image, attachment and abandonment worries, codependency, and compassion fatigue. Sessions are designed to be collaborative so the person remains seen as the expert on their life. People who prefer clear, practical steps alongside empathetic listening often find this style useful.
Vanessa aims to demystify mental health and support clients as they build skills to handle life’s changes and setbacks.
Vanessa lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Vanessa works with
The areas below are the ones Vanessa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people identify what matters most to them and take small steps toward those values while accepting uncomfortable feelings. This approach can be useful for anxiety, depression, and chronic stress where values-based action matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments and behavior changes to reduce distress and improve mood. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Mindfulness Therapy encourages simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness, which supports emotion regulation and stress management.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. The therapist will work collaboratively with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and personal preferences. Plans can be adjusted over time so strategies evolve with progress or changing circumstances.
Online sessions offer flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or to use written tools for reflection. These options make it simpler to fit regular work on mental health into a busy life.
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