About Pamela
Pamela Gilley is a licensed clinical social worker with 19 years of experience in Florida. She starts by listening to each person's story and helping them name what feels most urgent. Pamela believes people hold strengths that guide change and offers steady support as they try new ways forward.
Her work often focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder. She also helps people with issues related to sexual orientation and gender, including gender dysphoria, and supports those navigating non-monogamous relationships.
Background and approach
First responder stress, addiction, trauma and abuse, intimacy questions, anger, ADHD, and compassion fatigue are other areas she addresses. Pamela uses familiar, practical methods in sessions. She draws on client-centered ideas to follow what matters most to the person in front of her.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break down troubling patterns and try different behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy provides skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. She also uses approaches that target relationships, such as Emotionally-Focused Therapy and the Gottman Method, when people want to improve connection and communication.
Sessions are conversational and focused on small, doable steps between meetings. Pamela aims to make therapy feel like a useful part of everyday life. People who come to Pamela often want clear tools and a collaborative plan.
She helps set realistic goals and checks progress along the way. Her style is direct, compassionate, and practical.
Approach-driven care delivered online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. It helps people clarify goals and feel heard while they try changes one step at a time. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches practical techniques to test new ways of responding. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving relationships when feelings feel overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Pamela will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and together decide which methods make the most sense. That collaborative process means plans can shift as needs change and progress is tracked in regular meetings.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work, and messaging or live chat can be used for brief check-ins and skill practice between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while matching the practical demands of daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Intimacy-related issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English