Ernestine Tennefos
Compassionate counselor for parenting and trauma
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ernestine
Ernestine Tennefos is a licensed professional clinical counselor who focuses on helping people facing trauma, parenting challenges, stress, anxiety, and addictions. She also works with concerns around relationships, family tensions, grief, intimacy, anger, self-esteem, and adjusting to life changes. Her approach is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at creating a space where clients can speak openly without feeling judged.
Ernestine emphasizes a calm, listening-first style. She uses practical tools to help people notice patterns and try small changes.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, so a person leaves with things to try between meetings. She draws on client-centered methods that prioritize the person’s own perspective. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her toolbox for tackling anxiety, stress, and unhelpful thought patterns.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps when relationship and intimacy issues are at the center of concern. Mindfulness techniques are used to teach simple ways to manage strong emotions and stay present during hard moments. Ernestine brings 15 years of experience and practices in New Mexico as an LPCC - licensed professional clinical counselor.
In the first sessions she typically focuses on what matters most to the client now and sets small, practical goals. The aim is steady progress and clearer coping skills that fit real life.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting concerns
Ernestine uses client-centered work to put the person’s experience first. That means sessions begin by listening closely to what matters to you and shaping goals around your priorities. This approach helps when someone needs space to be heard and to make sense of difficult feelings.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT provides concrete tools for managing anxiety, stress, and unhelpful thinking patterns, and it pairs well with homework between sessions to practice new skills.
Finding the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they choose which approaches to try. That way the work can adjust as needs change and progress is tracked openly.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These options let people connect from home, keep momentum between meetings, and pick formats that match how they prefer to communicate. Licensed professionals can guide practical steps and coping strategies through these channels so the work stays useful and flexible.
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.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Coping with life changes
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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