About Gretchen
Gretchen Landry is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Louisiana. She brings 15 years of experience, including a strong background in medical social work and work with people facing depression, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and life changes. She has helped people dealing with cancer and its effects on families, and understands how illness can affect emotions and daily life.
Her experience also covers parenting concerns, addiction, trauma and abuse, and issues related to caregiving and chronic illness.
Background and approach
Gretchen’s style is warm and interactive. She focuses on clear conversation and practical steps. Sessions aim to help people understand where they are now and identify realistic next steps toward feeling better.
She uses approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered methods, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. These give a mix of skills practice, values-based work, and space to reflect on patterns. People who like a collaborative, down-to-earth approach tend to do well with her.
She emphasizes gentle encouragement and concrete tools to cope with stress, low mood, parenting strain, and transitions. Gretchen looks to help each person move toward better daily functioning and emotional balance.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed steps toward them, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It can help with anxiety, depression, and major life transitions by teaching ways to act in line with what matters most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and test them against real-life evidence, then build new habits and coping skills. This is useful for anxiety, low mood, and coping with stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and meeting each person where they are, giving space to explore feelings and priorities.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Gretchen will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and current needs. Together they will adjust the approach over time if something isn’t working.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter call is preferred. Chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, ongoing support, or when writing through thoughts feels most useful. These options make scheduling easier and let people keep therapy going across different days and settings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English