Connie Fleming
Steady guidance for parents and families
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Connie
Connie Fleming is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 30 years of experience helping people through hard seasons. She works with stress, anxiety, grief, low self‑esteem, depression, and parenting concerns in Alabama. Parents and families will find straightforward support and steady guidance when they reach out.
She focuses on practical steps that reduce daily overwhelm. Sessions often include simple strategies for coping with change and improving communication at home. Connie also uses grief‑informed approaches to help people process loss in its many forms.
Background and approach
Her work draws on therapies that teach new ways to respond to difficult thoughts and feelings. She helps clients notice what matters to them, set small goals, and practice new habits between sessions. That hands-on emphasis is meant to help things shift, one step at a time.
Connie aims to make the room calm and predictable. She listens first and then helps people name what is getting in the way at home, at work, or in relationships. The tone is warm and direct, with an emphasis on practical tools.
Families often come for help with communication, blended family challenges, adoption and foster care questions, or fatherhood concerns. Connie also supports people dealing with attachment issues, codependency, caregiving stress, and compassion fatigue. Over three decades she has worked with a wide range of life changes including divorce, commitment questions, career shifts, and struggles tied to abandonment or family of origin.
Her approach is adaptable to each family’s needs.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify values and take small actions that match what matters to them. It’s useful for stress, anxiety, and life changes where getting stuck in painful thoughts is a problem. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It can help reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and improve daily coping. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, centers on emotion and connection in relationships and can be helpful when couples or family members struggle to understand each other’s needs.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Connie will talk with clients about goals and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That plan is adjusted over time so the therapy stays practical and relevant to what is happening at home.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules. Video calls let people meet face-to-face from home, while phone, live chat, and text messaging offer more flexible options for shorter check-ins or when travel is difficult. These formats support regular contact and let families practice new skills between meetings.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point