About MaRanda
MaRanda Gilmore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana who helps people who are feeling stuck, stressed, or overwhelmed. She focuses on real-life concerns like anxiety, depression, relationship and family struggles, and ADHD. MaRanda speaks plainly and aims to make the first step easier for someone nervous about starting therapy.
She approaches sessions believing each person knows their own story and strengths. Conversations center on what matters most to the client and practical steps they can try between sessions.
Background and approach
MaRanda uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and from solution-focused work to set clear, achievable goals. When trauma or painful past events come up, she draws on trauma-focused methods to help people process what happened and reduce its hold on daily life.
Emotionally-focused ideas are used too when the issue involves closeness, trust, or recurring hurt in relationships. The mix of approaches is adapted to the person's needs rather than following one fixed plan. Sessions are conversational and down-to-earth.
Clients can expect to talk about specific problems, try small experiments, and track progress over time. MaRanda also offers coaching-style guidance when clients want more structure around goals like career changes or parenting challenges. With 11 years of experience, MaRanda aims to create a steady, respectful space where people can take manageable steps toward better coping and clearer choices.
Approach-driven care via online sessions
MaRanda blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people make practical changes. Client-centered therapy means the conversation focuses on the person's priorities and strengths, while cognitive behavioral therapy targets patterns of thought and behavior that get in the way of daily functioning. Together these approaches are useful for anxiety, stress, relationship concerns, and challenges linked to ADHD.She also draws on emotionally-focused and trauma-focused ideas when deeper relationship patterns or past hurts are part of the problem. Choosing the right approach is collaborative - the therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit, and adjust the plan based on what helps most over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone session, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful for a fuller face-to-face conversation, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can suit quick check-ins or times when a shorter touchpoint fits into a busy day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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