Goldie Oakes, LPC

Goldie Oakes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 19 years of clinical experience. She focuses on common struggles such as stress, anxiety, grief, anger, low self-esteem, depression, addictions, relationships, family concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting, career transitions, and compassion fatigue. Goldie also has practice experience with adoption and foster care, abandonment, caregiver stress, codependency, communication and control issues, substance use, and related concerns.

Her sessions aim to be practical. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) tools to identify unhelpful thinking and change patterns that increase tension. She also draws on Motivational Interviewing to help people find reasons to change, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy ideas to look at how emotions shape connections with others.

Goldie integrates mindfulness and relaxation practices when they fit a client's needs, and sometimes incorporates Christian readings or scripture for those who want that perspective. She often assigns simple homework such as journaling, reading, and practicing CBT or DBT-style skills between sessions. These tasks are meant to help people test new ways of handling anger, stress, and difficult situations in daily life.

Her stated aim is to help clients regain functioning and motivation after events or patterns that have made life harder. She encourages periodic self-reflection alongside clinical assessment to track progress. Sessions are presented as a collaborative effort to work through emotions and behaviors that interfere with relationships, work, or personal wellbeing.

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