Dr. Chanda Pilgrim
Experienced psychologist using cognitive tools
GA Psychologist PSY003471 Georgia
- Experience
- 26 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Family, Trauma and abuse, Parenting
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Languages
- English
About Chanda
Dr. Chanda Pilgrim welcomes people who feel overwhelmed by situations that have grown large and hard to manage.
Background and approach
She helps clients step back and view problems from new angles so they feel more manageable, combining practical strategies with attention to lifestyle factors. Dr.
Pilgrim brings 26 years of experience as a Georgia psychologist and has worked in schools, personal agencies, and community mental health settings. She draws on a cognitively based approach to identify how thoughts influence feelings and behavior, and she uses that lens to address concerns ranging from mood and anxiety to relationship and family dynamics.
Her work is holistic in focus, which means conversations often include sleep, diet, exercise, and spiritual well-being as elements that interact with emotional health. Clients can expect a conversational style that also includes targeted skill-building, homework between sessions, and occasional guided meditation to alter automatic reactions.
She aims to build a warm, familiar therapeutic connection while helping clients develop practical tools to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
CBT In Practice for Online Care
Dr. Chanda Pilgrim uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, testing beliefs with real-world experiments, and building practical skills to reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress. This approach is structured and goal-oriented, making it well suited to work over remote sessions where clients practice techniques between meetings.She also integrates holistic elements into the work by exploring lifestyle factors such as sleep, diet, and exercise and how they affect emotional health. These additions support cognitive work by addressing physical and behavioral contributors to mood and coping. Deciding which strategies to emphasize is collaborative; the therapist and client will evaluate needs, goals, and preferences together and adapt the plan as progress unfolds.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how care is delivered, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and practice skills in real time with therapist guidance, while preserving access from different locations within Georgia.
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Experience
26+ years
Licensed
Georgia
Languages
English