Cora Strickland

Cora Strickland is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in North Carolina with two decades of experience. She works from a private practice perspective and focuses on helping people sort through strong emotions and life stressors. Her approach is direct and practical, aimed at making things feel more manageable day to day.

Cora explains how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and uses that as the basis for change. She commonly guides people through cognitive restructuring and behavioral activation to interrupt unhelpful patterns. She also teaches relaxation exercises and acceptance skills to reduce reactivity and improve coping.

Motivational Interviewing is part of her toolkit when someone feels stuck or uncertain about change. That approach helps people find internal reasons to move forward and builds small, achievable steps. Trauma-focused work is used when past hurt still affects current behavior and relationships.

Clients come for many concerns, including stress and anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, anger, addiction issues, problems with sleep and eating, and relationship or intimacy-related difficulties. She also helps people dealing with grief, career transitions, parenting stress, bipolar disorder, and ADHD-related challenges.

Cora earned her undergraduate degree from East Carolina University and her master’s degree from North Carolina Central University. She holds the LCMHC credential and has practiced in private settings for many years. People who want a straightforward, skills-based approach that also respects their pace may find her style a good match.

How Cora’s approaches can work online

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice thoughts that keep them stuck and try different actions to change results. It uses exercises like cognitive restructuring and behavioral activation to build new habits and reduce symptoms. Motivational Interviewing focuses on drawing out a person’s own reasons for change and turning those reasons into small, doable steps. It is useful when someone feels unsure or ambivalent about making a change.

Choosing the right method is a team effort. Cora will work with the client to figure out which approach or combination fits best. That decision is based on the client’s goals, preferences, and how they respond to early sessions, and it can be adjusted over time.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into daily life, such as avoiding travel time, fitting a session into a lunch break, or keeping workday interruptions small. The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Many people find online work lets them practice new skills in real settings and carry exercises into the routines where change needs to happen.