Genee Tinsley , LMHC

Genee Tinsley is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with nine years of clinical experience. She offers a warm,interactive style and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship concerns. She aims to treat each person with respect and without stigmatizing labels.

Genee blends practical tools with open conversation. She uses client-centered listening alongside Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to address thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Sessions often focus on clear coping skills that a person can use between meetings.

She has experience supporting people through trauma, emotional abuse, and substance-related problems. Genee also helps with parenting challenges, mood disorders, obsessive behaviors, ADHD, grief, and intimacy-related issues. Her practice includes attention to life changes such as divorce, adoption and foster care concerns, and financial stress.

Her approach is collaborative. She works with each person to tailor goals and a plan that match their situation and values. Genee emphasizes small, achievable steps and practical strategies for day-to-day life.

People who choose her work together on skills for emotion regulation, communication, and relapse prevention when relevant. She encourages curiosity about patterns and supports clients as they try new ways of coping and relating to others.

How these approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and empathy. The therapist creates space to hear what matters most and asks questions that help people find their own answers. This approach supports work on relationship strains, self-esteem, and life direction.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thoughts and the actions that follow them. It uses practical exercises and homework to shift thinking patterns and build different habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, obsessions, and addiction-related urges.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance skills. It teaches techniques for managing intense feelings and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which is useful for mood instability and impulsivity.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to decide which approaches fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences. Together they set targets and try strategies, adjusting as progress unfolds.

Confirm current session options before booking, since specific online formats are not listed in the profile. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - for example, shorter check-ins during a work break or saving travel time for longer sessions. It also lets people use tools like worksheets and in-the-moment skills practice between meetings to reinforce progress.