About Fennisha
Fennisha Gardner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience helping people navigate relationship and family challenges. She focuses on practical strategies to reduce stress, manage anxiety and ADHD-related struggles, and improve everyday functioning. Gardner creates a straightforward, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what’s hardest for them.
She invites clients to name concrete goals and work on steps that fit daily life. Many sessions focus on improving communication, managing strong emotions, and rebuilding trust after conflict.
Background and approach
Her background includes long-term work with families and individuals facing trauma, addiction, grief, and parenting stress. That experience informs a calm, steady approach when emotions run high. She supports people who want clearer boundaries, better self-esteem, or relief from persistent worry.
Therapy often uses hands-on tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Solution-focused techniques help people identify small, workable changes and build on them quickly.
Sessions are offered in English and can be scheduled in formats that fit modern life. Gardner emphasizes collaboration - clients set the pace and priorities, and she offers practical ways to try things between meetings. Taking a first step is acknowledged as an act of courage, and the work moves at a realistic, paced rhythm.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Options
Fennisha often blends cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people manage thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing different behaviors to change outcomes; it is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches practical skills for tolerating distress, regulating intense emotions, and improving communication in relationships. Finding the right approach is a shared process. She works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process makes it easier to try techniques between sessions and adjust the plan as progress is made. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer conversations, phone sessions can be a simpler option with lower bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide quick check-ins or brief coaching between meetings. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling, short check-ins during a work break, or ongoing support without commuting.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Alaska
- Languages
- English
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