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Cora Strickland

Calm, practical therapy for everyday struggles

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Credentials
LCMHC
Experience
20 years
Licensed in
North Carolina
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Cora

Cora Strickland is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina. She brings 20 years of experience working in independent practice and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting concerns. Cora explains things in plain language and helps clients see how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect.

Her approach centers on practical strategies people can use between sessions. She often uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at unhelpful thinking patterns and builds new habits.

Background and approach

She also draws on motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change and Trauma-Focused Therapy when past events are causing present distress. Cora teaches straightforward tools like cognitive restructuring, behavioral activation, relaxation practices, and acceptance exercises. Sessions tend to mix talking with short skills practice, homework, and step-by-step plans.

This makes progress measurable and easier to apply at home. Clients seeking help for grief, anger, addictions, sleep or eating problems, intimacy concerns, self-esteem, career stress, bipolar symptoms, or ADHD will find relevant experience in her background. She also works with LGBT concerns and relationship challenges in individual sessions.

Her training includes an undergraduate degree from East Carolina University and a master’s degree from North Carolina Central University. Cora holds NC LCMHC license number 4959 and has been in clinical practice for two decades.

How Cora’s approaches translate to online therapy

Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on understanding and processing difficult past events so they stop driving daily reactions. It often combines gentle exposure, emotion management, and rebuilding a sense of safety to reduce symptoms tied to trauma.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-life experiments. It uses techniques like cognitive restructuring and behavioral activation to change thinking and build healthier routines for mood, sleep, and anxiety concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Cora collaborates with each person to choose or adapt methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying techniques, reviewing what helps, and adjusting plans together over time.

Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging makes it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules. These formats let people practice skills in their usual environment, check in between sessions, and stay connected when attending in person is hard. The variety of formats supports consistent progress and flexible access to a licensed professional.

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.

Motivational Interviewing

A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.

Trauma-Focused Therapy

Work that takes difficult past experience into account and moves at a pace you set, with attention to feeling steady before anything else. Being in your own space can make that easier for some people.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does she address?
Cora helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, addictions, grief, and coping with life changes. She also works with concerns like parenting, sleep and eating issues, self-esteem, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, intimacy-related issues, relationship questions, career stress, and LGBT issues.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
She uses a straightforward, skills-based style. Expect practical tools, short skills practice, and clear steps you can try between sessions.
What is her background and experience?
Cora has 20 years of clinical experience and has worked in independent practice for many years. Her training includes a bachelor’s degree from East Carolina University and a master’s degree from North Carolina Central University.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) in North Carolina, license number NC LCMHC 4959, and practices from that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are accepted, so people outside the United States can connect for online sessions.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible ways to meet.
How does billing 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 therapist availability.

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Experience
20 years
Licensed
North Carolina
Languages
English

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