Vanessa Statam, LCSW

How Vanessa’s Approaches Work Online

Client-centered therapy starts with listening and making space for what matters most to the person seeking help. The therapist follows your lead, reflects what she hears, and helps you name what you want to change and why. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It often helps with anxiety, mood problems, and stress by teaching concrete coping strategies. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that targets distressing memories to reduce their emotional intensity and helps with trauma-related symptoms.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Vanessa will talk with clients about goals, try methods that fit the concern, and adjust plans as progress is reviewed. That collaborative process helps decide whether listening-focused work, skills training, trauma processing, or a mix of methods is best for each person.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video calls let people read facial cues and have a more traditional session feel. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Text and chat are useful for brief check-ins, sharing thoughts between meetings, or when shorter exchanges are preferred. These options make scheduling and ongoing work more flexible for busy lives.