Gwendolyn Young

Gwendolyn Young is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who draws on personal experience and 11 years in practice to help people through difficult life chapters. She emphasizes a warm, person-centered approach and aims to meet people where they are. Her style is direct but compassionate, focused on practical steps that can relieve stress and restore direction.

Her work often focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, and addictions alongside grief and low self-esteem. She also helps people coping with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, anger, and major life transitions. Career concerns, ADHD, mood disorders, and substance-related struggles are also listed among her focused areas.

In sessions she blends client-centered listening with structured techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Motivational interviewing and existential and narrative ideas inform longer term work about meaning, values, and identity. This mix is used to build skills, test new behaviors, and reflect on personal purpose.

Gwendolyn earned a master’s degree in professional counseling plus a master’s and post-master’s study in addiction counseling. She approaches each person as an individual and works collaboratively to set realistic goals. Her practice is based in Virginia and sessions are conducted in English.

People who want to start are invited to complete a short questionnaire and schedule a session. The process is presented as a step-by-step match to find practical strategies that fit daily life and goals.

How core approaches are used in online work

Client-centered therapy places the person’s goals and lived experience at the center of sessions. The therapist listens actively and follows the client’s lead to build understanding and make change. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, or problematic habits. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving coping when stress and relationships feel overwhelming.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit best with their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying techniques together, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan over time rather than committing to a single method from the start.

Session format options are not listed in the original biography, so confirm the available online session types before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also makes consistent skill practice more reachable between meetings, since tools and homework can be shared and reviewed in follow-up conversations.