Yelitza Gallimore, LCMHC

Yelitza Gallimore is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina with 11 years of experience. She works with adolescents and adults on common struggles like depression, anxiety, relationship stress, and parenting challenges. She also helps people facing addiction concerns and LGBT-related issues in a queer-friendly way.

Her work often addresses trauma, PTSD, and family of origin issues. She supports people with eating and body-image concerns, codependency, dissociation, and recovery from toxic relationships. She also helps those who identify as neurodiverse or highly sensitive, and people navigating ADHD or autism-related challenges.

Yelitza’s style is gentle, encouraging, and nonjudgmental. She centers each person’s right to choose what feels right, while helping them build practical skills that last. Sessions focus on clear steps people can try between meetings, not just talk.

She combines client-centered work with cognitive behavioral and mindfulness techniques. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies are used to set goals and find workable changes. The therapist may integrate somatic ideas and offers energy tapping (EFT) to help with intense emotions and shifting unhelpful beliefs.

Yelitza invites people to move at a pace that feels manageable. She asks clients to try new perspectives and to practice small daily habits that support lasting change. If someone is ready to take active steps toward recovery or relief, she offers practical guidance and steady support.

Approaches and how they translate to online work

Client-centered work focuses on listening and following the client’s priorities. Online sessions can still center the client’s own goals, lived experience, and pace while the therapist reflects and helps clarify next steps.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. In online sessions CBT often includes problem lists, skill practice, and short between-session exercises to try in daily life. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and grounding skills to reduce anxiety and reactivity, which works well when practicing brief exercises during or between online meetings.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which approaches fit their needs, goals, and preferences and will adjust methods as progress is made.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people practice skills in the settings where they live. Ask about format and scheduling when you complete the matching questionnaire to ensure sessions match your routine.