About Pamela
Pamela Grove Gougelman is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people work through stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and major life changes. She meets individuals where they are and focuses on practical steps to feel steadier and more able to cope. Her approach centers on listening closely and tuning into both feelings and the body.
She uses somatic methods to help people notice how stress shows up physically, and she draws on cognitive and acceptance-based tools to change unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a pace each person can handle. Pamela combines client-centered work with attachment-informed ideas to strengthen relationships and improve communication. She helps people understand long-standing patterns, set boundaries, and repair difficult connections.
She also supports those facing grief, burnout, chronic health challenges, and addiction concerns. With a long career in Florida as an LCSW - licensed clinical social worker - she brings steady clinical experience without assuming one path fits everyone. Therapy focuses on small, achievable changes and practicing new ways to respond between sessions.
People often come for help with sleep problems, parenting stress, career strain, or compassion fatigue. Pamela works collaboratively to set clear goals and track progress over time. She also accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
How somatic and talking therapies work online
Somatic work helps people notice how emotions appear in the body, such as tightness, tension, or breath changes, and uses gentle practices to reduce physical distress. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches how to accept difficult thoughts and feelings while taking steps toward a meaningful life. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and helps people build clearer boundaries and more stable connections.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss what feels most useful and adjust methods to match each person's needs, goals, and preferences. This is a collaborative process that mixes body awareness, skills practice, and talking in whatever balance feels best.
Online sessions offer flexibility for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Pamela provides help by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging so clients can pick what fits their routine. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and apply new skills in day-to-day life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English