MaRanda Gilmore , LPC

MaRanda Gilmore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana who helps people facing relationship and family concerns. She works with clients who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, and struggles with self-esteem. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at helping people take practical steps forward.

She treats intimacy-related issues, communication problems, and blended family challenges with clear conversation and focused goals. MaRanda draws on client-centered methods to center each person’s experience and strengths. She also uses solution-focused techniques to map small, manageable changes that add up over time.

For trauma and abuse, she applies trauma-focused approaches while also using emotion-focused work to help people understand and shift painful patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools are offered to handle unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that fuel anxiety or depression. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.

Clients can expect practical strategies for parenting, career stress, and recovery from substance use. MaRanda also addresses specific concerns like abandonment, attachment issues, body image, and impulsivity. Her approach mixes short-term skills with deeper emotional work when needed.

She combines 11 years of experience with a belief that clients are experts on their own stories. That perspective guides efforts to build clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and greater self-compassion. MaRanda aims to support steady progress toward a more balanced life.

Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work

Client-Centered Therapy places the client’s perspective at the center of sessions and focuses on listening, validation, and building on strengths to move forward. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to talk through relationship or family worries.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, offers practical tools to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and problems with impulsivity or substance use.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on patterns of connection and communication. It helps people identify emotional needs and change repeated interaction cycles that fuel conflict or distance.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and current concerns. That plan can change over time as needs shift and progress is tracked.

Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video lets people use visual cues for deeper emotional work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging can help maintain momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity of care when schedules change.