About Thelma
Thelma Hunter is a licensed clinical social worker in Kentucky with 25 years of professional experience. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with addiction, and address low self-esteem and motivation. She also supports people living with mood disorders such as bipolar disorder and depression.
She believes people know their story best and that strengths already exist to help move forward. Sessions focus on practical steps and clear goals.
Background and approach
Thelma aims to make each meeting feel direct and understandable so progress can happen between sessions. Her approach is collaborative and steady. She listens for what matters most and helps create small, realistic changes.
Topics often include relationships, grief, parenting concerns, anger, and intimacy-related issues. Thelma also works with issues around life transitions. These include career changes, midlife questions, divorce and separation, aging and caregiver stress, and finding life purpose.
She offers straightforward guidance on coping with loss, guilt, shame, and isolation. In sessions she may address specific patterns such as obsessive or compulsive behavior, phobias, and substance use. The goal is to build practical skills and clearer thinking so people can make choices that match their values.
Her style is warm, focused, and grounded in real-world solutions.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on building skills and changing patterns. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches tools for managing anxiety and mood swings, such as breathing, paced thinking, and step-by-step behavior changes to reduce overwhelm. This kind of work helps with stress, panic, and everyday mood regulation.Another approach addresses addictive behaviors and compulsions by identifying triggers and developing alternative responses. That work often combines problem solving with relapse prevention planning and small, achievable goals to reduce harmful patterns and rebuild routines.
Finding the right way to work is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. The client and therapist decide together which methods fit goals and life circumstances.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video is useful when visual connection matters, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can fit quick check-ins or brief coaching during a busy day. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still focusing on steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English