Thelma Hunter
Compassionate, practical support for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Thelma
Thelma Hunter is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and addiction-related concerns. She also supports those dealing with parenting pressures, relationship strain, grief, trauma, and issues with self-esteem or motivation.
Her style is direct and respectful, focusing on practical steps parents and adults can use right away. She believes each person knows their story best and brings their own strengths.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on identifying those strengths and building manageable plans to move forward. The therapist uses evidence-based techniques tailored to everyday life, not jargon or one-size-fits-all programs. Thelma draws on long experience across a range of mood and behavior concerns.
She listens for patterns that get in the way and helps clients try concrete, realistic changes. Work may include coping strategies, problem-solving, and skills to rebuild confidence. Her Kentucky license is LCSW 1789 and she conducts sessions in English.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit busy family schedules. Cost varies with location and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person uses the Start Therapy button, completes a short matching questionnaire, and schedules according to therapist availability.
The process is straightforward and intended to get people talking about what matters to them quickly.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Thelma uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common technique is cognitive-behavioral work, which helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different actions to reduce anxiety, depression, or unhelpful habits. Another helpful approach is skills-focused coaching that builds coping tools for stress, cravings with addictions, parenting challenges, and relationship strain.Finding the best approach is a team effort. The therapist and client review goals, try methods that fit daily life, and adjust as needed. This collaborative process helps tailor strategies to what actually works for each person rather than using a single fixed system.
Online therapy makes this flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging let people fit therapy into busy family routines or return to ideas between sessions. These options support continuity of care and make it easier to practice new skills in real time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point