About Porsha
Porsha Coates is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, parenting pressures, ADHD-related challenges, and self-esteem concerns. She writes plainly and listens carefully to understand what’s making life harder. Her goal is practical progress people can use day to day.
Porsha draws on a client-centered style that keeps the person’s priorities front and center. She blends cognitive behavioral tools with mindfulness and narrative work to help clients change unhelpful thoughts and rewrite personal stories.
Background and approach
Hypnotherapy is also part of her toolkit for people who respond well to that approach. Her background includes a Master of Science in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling and a bachelor’s degree in psychology. She spent many years as a Senior Non-Commissioned Officer in the United States Air Force, which informs her understanding of veteran and high-stress environments.
That experience shapes how she talks about leadership, transitions, and the effects of prolonged stress. In sessions, she focuses on patterns, behavior, and communication. Practical strategies and skills are emphasized so clients can try changes between meetings.
She also supports people working through blended family issues, co-morbidity, impulsivity, and multicultural concerns. Porsha aims to make therapy collaborative and down to earth. She helps clients set clear goals and tracks small steps toward them.
Progress is measured in changes to daily routines, communication, and emotional reactions.
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person’s goals and values and gives clients space to lead the conversation. Online sessions let the therapist follow what matters most while suggesting techniques that fit the client’s life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with concrete exercises and homework. In remote sessions CBT tools can be taught, practiced, and checked in on between meetings via messages or brief calls. Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each client to decide which methods to try based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. That might mean leaning more on mindfulness one month and CBT the next, and adjustments are made together as progress is tracked. Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - offer practical benefits. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and practicing skills together. Phone sessions can fit a short break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, coaching-style prompts, or follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain momentum and access support when life gets busy.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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