Therapist profile
Pamela Gerdes, LPC
Licensed Professional Counselor - Parenting and family concerns
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- CBT techniques
- Client-centered work
- Mindfulness tools
About Pamela
Pamela Gerdes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Idaho with ten years of professional experience. She focuses on parenting concerns, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, anxiety, depression, and related life stresses. Pamela also supports people coping with career shifts, ADHD, caregiver stress, and questions of life purpose.
Pamela invites people to bring practical problems and everyday pressures into sessions. She uses straightforward, goal-focused conversation to sort feelings and identify small steps forward. Expect a mix of talking through what's hard, learning new ways to respond, and practicing simple skills between meetings.
Her work includes experience with adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, abandonment and attachment concerns, and aging or caregiver stress. She has personal experience as a foster and adoptive parent and draws on that perspective when clients raise parenting or family-of-origin topics.
Pamela also offers faith-informed counseling for clients who request a Christian or Biblically based approach. She acknowledges faith-related hurt and can help people process spiritual questions alongside emotional ones.
Sessions aim to be practical and focused. Pamela frequently uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered methods, solution-focused strategies, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness techniques. These tools are used to help people address parenting strain, rebuild confidence, reduce anxiety, and manage grief or relationship conflict.
How sessions work
How Pamela’s approaches translate to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters most to the client. It helps people feel heard and clarify their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) identifies unhelpful thoughts and tests new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people notice and name emotions so they can shift interaction patterns and improve closeness in relationships.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Pamela will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and day-to-day life. That decision is revisited as needs change, and sessions can combine different approaches to address parenting strain, grief, or anxiety.
The practical benefits of online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week. Many people find online sessions reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins during a work break or quieter moments at home. The profile does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Licensed professionals and therapists commonly adapt CBT exercises, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing techniques to work well in virtual meetings, making progress possible even when meeting remotely.
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Experience
10+ years
Listed in
Idaho
Languages
English
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What kinds of family and parenting concerns does she address?
Pamela works with parenting strain, blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver stress, and communication problems within families.
How would she describe her therapeutic style?
She practices client-centered conversation combined with solution-focused and motivational interviewing techniques. Sessions focus on practical steps and skill practice between meetings.
How much experience does she have with trauma and grief?
She has ten years of professional experience and has helped people recover from trauma, abuse, and grief in her work.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Idaho.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking by checking the online therapy options. The profile does not list specific session formats.
How are costs handled for sessions?
Costs vary with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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