Therapist profile
MaRanda Gilmore, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor - Relationships and Family
Continue with MaRandaAbout
- Relationship conflict
- Parenting support
- Trauma-informed methods
About MaRanda
MaRanda Gilmore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Louisiana with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship and family concerns along with stress, anxiety, and parenting challenges. MaRanda also addresses issues like addiction, trauma, grief, and self-esteem.
She approaches work in a straightforward, person-centered way. She treats people as the experts of their own stories and helps them use their strengths. Sessions often include practical tools for coping with changes, managing strong emotions, and improving communication.
Her background includes support for intimacy-related struggles and family conflict. She helps people sort through attachment concerns, blended family dynamics, and fatherhood issues. She also addresses problems linked to abandonment, guilt, shame, and family-of-origin wounds.
MaRanda uses several therapeutic methods to guide sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at feelings and how they shape closeness in relationships. Solution-Focused and trauma-informed techniques are used when the situation calls for focused, action-oriented work.
Practical goals often include clearer communication, healthier boundaries, and coping strategies for stress or addictive behaviors. MaRanda offers coaching-style support when clients want concrete next steps for career or life transitions. To begin, a short matching process and an initial appointment let people set priorities and plan follow-up steps.
How sessions work
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people can make their own choices; online sessions use that same emphasis on the client’s goals and perspective. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts and behaviors and often involves concrete exercises and homework useful for stress, anxiety, and mood concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps identify and work with emotional patterns that shape relationship difficulties and closeness. Finding the right approach is part of the work. MaRanda will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean prioritizing skill practice with CBT, exploring feelings with EFT, or using solution-focused steps when quick, practical changes are needed. Confirm the session formats before booking, as specific online options are not detailed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. They also let people use video when they prefer face-to-face contact or choose audio for lower bandwidth and fewer visual demands. Discussing how sessions will work is part of the initial scheduling and matching process.Areas of focus
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Experience
11+ years
Listed in
Louisiana
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of relationship and family issues are addressed?
She works with relationship strain, family conflict, intimacy concerns, blended family issues, and communication problems.
What approaches does she use in sessions?
Sessions draw from Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Solution-Focused work, and Trauma-Focused Therapy depending on goals.
How much experience does she have?
She has 11 years of professional work experience supporting adults with stress, anxiety, and family-related concerns.
What credential does she hold and where does she practice?
She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - practicing in Louisiana.
Can sessions be conducted in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English only.
Are international clients accepted?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.