About Pamela
Pamela Grove Gougelman is a Florida-based licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. She brings 30 years of experience to conversations about mood, relationships, and coping with difficult events. Her style is straightforward and calm, focused on practical steps and steady support.
Clients can expect a steady listener who asks clear questions and offers real tools. Pamela uses everyday language and hands-on strategies to address sleeping problems, low self-esteem, addiction concerns, and work-related strain.
Background and approach
She also helps people who are dealing with trauma, compassion fatigue, or chronic health challenges. Her background includes long experience treating a wide range of concerns such as attachment issues, codependency, caregiver stress, and body image worries. Pamela pairs that experience with approaches that fit the person in front of her rather than a single model.
She draws on methods that help change unhelpful thoughts, build emotional skills, and clarify values. Sessions often focus on skills you can try between meetings. That can mean practicing new ways to communicate, setting manageable goals, or learning routines that improve sleep and mood.
Pamela aims to help people gain more control over daily life and respond differently to old patterns. She is licensed in Florida as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW. Pamela offers sessions in English and accepts international clients, working by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters most and taking steps toward those values while learning to notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going and teaches practical techniques to change those patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people develop safer, more effective ways to connect and communicate.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Pamela will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences and suggest approaches that match. She collaborates on a plan and adjusts methods over time so the work feels relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules or people who prefer remote care. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel constraints while using the approaches described above to guide practical change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English