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Goldie Oakes, LPC

Stress, Anxiety Relationships Parenting issues Anger management Depression
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About me

Hello. My name is Goldie Marker Oakes, Licensed Professional Counselor, and I look forward to working with you. My professional clinical career began in 2006 providing treatment in the mental health field. My primary therapeutic modality includes a strong but eclectic therapeutic modality that incorporates a strong clinical perspective using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Enhancement Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. If you are comfortable with this approach, I also use a holistic and Christian perspective using Mindfulness and Relaxation Therapy, prayer and scripture. My goal as your therapist is too help you find peace, joy, and happiness in life. My job is to help you learn how to overcome your life events, emotions and experiences that have caused you problems functioning normally, relating to others, or even finding motivation to continue on your life's path. My professional experience with both includes clinical approach with a Christian mindset that includes:
• treating clinical concerns such as anxiety, social anxiety, depression, trauma, grief and loss, and other clinical concerns.
• relationships
• self-image, self-esteem, and efficacy
• anger management and self-harm behaviors and impulse control

My therapeutic approach often incorporates homework such as reading Christian literature or specific scripture, journal and self-reflective writing and practice of specific CBT and DBT strategies outside the clinical setting, at home, and in the community, all of which supports your growth and progress. My goal is for your growth to be internal as you move towards defining or redefining your relationship with Christ. This means a great deal of your progress requires your need to periodically evaluate your own progress through self-evaluation and self-reflection, in addition to my own clinical assessments with your progress.

My goal as a counselor is to help you find peace, joy, and happiness in life as you learn to overcome those things in your life that have caused a loss of functioning individually or within the family dynamic. This path is not always an easy one; however, God promises us that we Never have to travel that path alone.

Professional experience

17yrs in practice
Stress, Anxiety Relationships Parenting issues Anger management Depression

Additional areas of focus: Addictions, Family conflicts, Trauma and abuse, Grief, Sleeping disorders, Self esteem, Bipolar disorder, Coping with life changes, Abandonment, Adoption and Foster Care, Antisocial Personality, Avoidant Personality, Cancer, Caregiver issues and stress, Codependency, Commitment Issues, Communication problems, Control issues, Coping with Natural or Human-Caused Disaster, Domestic Violence, Drug and Alcohol Addiction, Emptiness, Family of Origin Issues, Family Problems, Fatherhood Issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, Hospice and End of Life Counseling, Impulsivity, Infidelity, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Mood disorders , Multicultural Concerns, Paranoia, Phobias, Prejudice and Discrimination, Self-Harm, Self-love, Sexual Assault and Abuse, Social anxiety and phobia, Women's issues, Workplace issues

Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy

Services offered

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License information

VA LPC 0701008911

Reviews

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Goldie is great!

Written on Oct 07, 2024 after therapy with Goldie for 3 months on issues concerning self esteem

Goldie is a gem, she is so wise, thoughtful, practical and encouraging. She understands the mind and body working together to heal and I’m just so thankful to be working with her!

Written on Aug 09, 2024 after therapy with Goldie for 2 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, family conflicts, parenting issues, compassion fatigue, and adhd

Insightful, challenges one’s beliefs to see things differently, exactly what I needed!!!

Written on Aug 04, 2024 after therapy with Goldie for 3 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, family conflicts, and compassion fatigue

She is great

Written on Jun 24, 2024 after therapy with Goldie for 3 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and adhd

Goldie Oakes is very warm and supportive! She has been vital in helping me to improve week-to-week. She offers a safe environment.

Written on Feb 07, 2024 after therapy with Goldie for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleeping disorders, self esteem, anger management, career difficulties, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, coaching,

Goldie was super helpful. Listened and probed to learn more and gave me really helpful insights and practical steps. Thanks, Goldie!

Written on Jan 02, 2024 after therapy with Goldie for 2 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, sleeping disorders, and self esteem