About Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn Sanders is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of clinical experience. She provides a calm, welcoming presence and focuses on helping people manage relationship strain, grief, parenting challenges, anxiety, and depression. She uses a client-centered approach that starts by listening to what matters most to each person.
That means sessions are shaped around the client’s goals and pace, with conversations that feel respectful and practical. People can expect straightforward talk and space to work through difficult emotions.
Background and approach
Gwendolyn also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try clearer, more effective ways of coping. Motivational interviewing is used when people feel stuck or unsure about change; it helps uncover personal reasons for taking next steps.
Her background includes long-term work with caregivers, grief and loss, aging and hospice contexts, adoption and foster care concerns, blended family dynamics, and cancer-related stress. That experience informs practical suggestions for everyday life, not just therapy talk. She holds an MS and practices as an LCSW, licensed in Mississippi and Louisiana under MS LCSW C7373 and LA LCSW 4443.
Sessions are offered in English and available by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
How these approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building understanding. Online sessions give space for people to describe their priorities, and the therapist shapes sessions around those goals. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance and a steady guide through change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings, and actions to find practical changes that reduce stress and improve mood. In remote sessions, CBT can include short exercises, worksheets, and step-by-step skill practice between meetings to manage anxiety, depression, or communication problems.
Motivational Interviewing helps people who feel unsure about making changes. It uses respectful conversation to uncover personal reasons for change and to build small, doable steps forward. Online formats work well for brief check-ins and planning those steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort. Plans are adjusted as progress is made, and the client helps set the pace.
Practically, offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging gives flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow ongoing support between meetings and quick problem-solving when life gets busy. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily routines and keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Mississippi
- Languages
- English