- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, Mississippi
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Grief
About Gwendolyn
Gwendolyn Sanders is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of experience. She provides calm, welcoming care and focuses on helping people navigate relationship stress, grief, parenting concerns, anxiety, and depression. She uses a client-centered approach that keeps the person's goals in focus.
Sessions are conversational and practical. The aim is to help people feel understood and to find steps they can try between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolkit.
Background and approach
That approach helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to ease stress and improve mood. Motivational Interviewing is used when people want to make changes but feel stuck or unsure about where to start. Her experience includes work with caregiver stress, end-of-life and hospice issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and blended family challenges.
She has also supported people facing cancer, isolation, divorce, and communication problems within their families. Gwendolyn practices in Mississippi and holds an MS LCSW and an LA LCSW. Sessions are offered in English and are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
The subscription-based format can be canceled at any time.
What Gwendolyn works with
Everything Gwendolyn lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Gwendolyn helps people with.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Depression
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Gwendolyn lists
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a respectful relationship that follows the person's priorities. Online sessions let the therapist and client talk through parenting worries, grief, or relationship strain in a way that feels natural and paced to the client's needs.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot thoughts that increase anxiety or low mood and then try different actions to change how they feel. Delivered by video or phone, CBT can include simple exercises and homework that fit into a busy family schedule.
Motivational Interviewing supports people who want change but feel stuck. The therapist uses gentle questions and reflection to help people find their own reasons and steps for moving forward, which can be very useful when deciding parenting strategies or making life transitions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they will choose and adjust methods so sessions feel useful and realistic.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat or text messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, updates, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while juggling family and other responsibilities.
Questions people ask about Gwendolyn
What concerns does she help with?
She addresses relationship challenges, family stress, grief, intimacy-related issues, parenting questions, anxiety, and depression, plus related topics like caregiver stress and blended family issues.
What is her therapy style like?
Her style is relaxed and inviting, centered on the client's needs. Sessions are conversational and focused on practical steps you can try between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
She brings 20 years of clinical experience working with a range of concerns including caregiver and grief work, aging issues, and relationship and employment-related stress.
What credentials and region does she practice in?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with MS LCSW and LA LCSW credentials and practices in Mississippi.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
She is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences.
How does payment and getting started work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to availability.
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