Belinda Edwards is a licensed professional counselor in Louisiana.
01About Belinda
Belinda Edwards is a licensed professional counselor in Louisiana. She brings 12 years of clinical experience to sessions and focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction. She also supports those working through trauma, grief, relationship strain, and career-related stress.
Her background includes work in community programs, correctional settings, and military contexts. Early in her career she helped set up a family counseling program at an inpatient substance abuse facility and later ran an outpatient clinic for mental health and substance use concerns.
Background and approach
Belinda uses practical approaches that help people make changes in day-to-day life. She offers Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address patterns of thought and behavior. She also uses trauma-focused methods and EMDR to support people processing painful memories.
She integrates Motivational Interviewing and Solution-Focused Therapy to help clients set goals and find steps that feel doable. Sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented, with attention to what fits each person’s rhythm and needs. Belinda has spent time working with service members and their families around deployment and military-related stress.
She is comfortable discussing faith when clients wish to include spiritual concerns in therapy. Her practice offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Prospective clients begin by completing a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that aligns with the therapist’s availability.
02Credentials
- LPC (Louisiana)
- License 4090 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1407033095 · national provider identifier
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03Focus areas and approaches
Everything Belinda lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
Methods Belinda names
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
These are the methods Belinda names on their own professional profile. Naming an approach is not evidence of training or certification in it, and this directory checks no training records. Ask directly if it matters to you.
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04Online support
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Belinda often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings and then practices new ways of responding. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, panic, and mood shifts by teaching concrete skills people can use between sessions.She also uses EMDR, a trauma-focused method that helps people process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity. EMDR is often chosen for post-traumatic stress and other trauma-related symptoms and is adapted for remote sessions when needed.
Choosing an approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide whether CBT, EMDR, motivational interviewing, or solution-focused steps make the most sense for the problem at hand.
Online therapy offers practical benefits like flexible scheduling and multiple ways to connect. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation and work well for skill practice. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter setup is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing encouragement, or quick problem-solving between longer sessions.
05Questions people ask
What concerns does she address?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, relationship and family challenges, and trauma-related issues.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her approach is practical and collaborative, focusing on clear goals and steps people can use between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She has 12 years of experience and has worked in community programs, corrections, and military settings, plus outpatient and inpatient substance abuse services.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds the LPC credential and practices in Louisiana.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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