Fennisha Gardner, LCSW

Fennisha Gardner is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience supporting people through relationship and family stress. She uses clear, practical talk to help people sort out painful feelings and decide on next steps.

She focuses on common challenges like anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, addictions, grief, and intimacy-related issues. She also helps with parenting strain, self-esteem, and concerns related to attention and focus. Her practice includes work around blended family problems, communication breakdowns, infidelity, divorce and separation, and caregiver stress.

In sessions she aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be named. Conversations tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented. She listens first, then helps people try out new ways of thinking and acting that fit their life.

Fennisha often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes. She also uses skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy for emotional regulation and Solution-Focused Therapy to set practical short-term goals. These approaches are tools she tailors to each person’s situation.

People come to her when they want relief from intense emotion, clearer choices in relationships, or strategies for daily stress. She works collaboratively to set priorities and track progress. Her style is direct, compassionate, and focused on what can change next.

CBT, DBT skills and solution-focused work online

Fennisha commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts that make feelings worse and test small behavior changes to feel better. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach concrete techniques for managing strong emotions and reducing reactivity.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan over time based on what works in real life.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls let people talk face to face, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging supports short ongoing work between calls. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to practice new skills in daily life.