Clarissa Poole Parks , LPC

Clarissa Poole Parks is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Georgia. She draws on ten years of clinical experience to help people facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, and trauma-related concerns. Her manner is warm and direct, and she focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.

Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with solution-focused ideas and mindfulness practices. She helps clients recognize unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors in small, manageable steps. Sessions also make space to process painful life events and relationship wounds at a comfortable pace.

Clarissa commonly works with issues around attachment, abandonment, and family conflict. She supports people dealing with body image concerns, transitions like separation or divorce, caregiver strain, and the emotional fatigue that comes from helping others. She also helps with anger, impulsivity, isolation, and rebuilding self-esteem.

Her style is compassionate and nonjudgmental. In conversations she aims to be practical and respectful, helping clients set clear, achievable goals. She encourages small changes that add up over time and checks in on how strategies are working between sessions.

Clarissa provides services in English and accepts international clients. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose the format that fits their day.

How her approaches work in online sessions

Clarissa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy along with mindfulness practices. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors by testing small, practical experiments between sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on understanding patterns in relationships and building clearer emotional connection and communication.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and life demands and then suggest techniques to try. That collaboration helps shape whether more skills-based CBT work, emotion-focused sessions, or mindfulness practices will be emphasized.

Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy days. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when that feels helpful. Phone sessions can be a better fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for shorter check-ins, quick skill reminders, or ongoing support between longer sessions.