Laticia Georgie, LCSW

Therapeutic approaches for online care

Client-centered work focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. It helps people feel heard and guides the session around their priorities and values, which is useful for stress, life changes, and self-esteem concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and short experiments to reduce anxiety, manage low mood, and change unhelpful patterns that keep problems going.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and name strong emotions and how those feelings shape relationships and reactions. This approach can be helpful for repair after conflict, grief, or trauma and for improving emotional connection with oneself and others.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferred ways of working, and what feels most helpful. Together they choose strategies and adjust them as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people read facial cues and hold longer conversations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can fit brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or times when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.