Regina Hood, LPC, LCMHC

Regina Hood is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) practicing in Mississippi. She brings 18 years of experience helping people through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. Regina encourages clients to name their goals and build on strengths they already have. She describes therapy as a collaborative process where small steps add up to meaningful change.

Regina uses a blend of approaches that include cognitive behavioral therapy and client-centered work. That means sessions often focus on identifying unhelpful thinking, testing new behaviors, and making practical changes that fit day-to-day life. She also draws on skills from dialectical behavior therapy for managing strong emotions and improving coping strategies.

Her work addresses a wide range of concerns such as relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, sleep problems, anger, and compassion fatigue. Regina also helps with obsessive thoughts, phobias, attention-deficit challenges, bipolar mood concerns, and the strain that comes with big life transitions. She aims to make strategies easy to use between sessions.

Regina values direct, respectful conversation. She listens for what matters most to each person and adapts tools to match their pace. Her approach is practical, steady, and focused on helping people feel more capable in everyday life.

How Regina’s Approaches Work Online

Regina integrates cognitive behavioral techniques and client-centered therapy into online sessions. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and address obsessions or phobias. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration so the therapist follows the person's goals and values while offering gentle guidance.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Regina will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. From that conversation she suggests practical tools and checks in regularly to adjust the plan so it fits the person’s real life.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and feedback. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for ongoing coaching, brief updates between sessions, and coping strategies that can be accessed during a busy day. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into varied schedules and needs.