Ehame Gbesso
Compassionate clinician combining strategy and empathy
MD, LCPC Maryland
- Experience
- 6 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Anger
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Ehame
Ehame Gbesso is a licensed clinician practicing in Maryland with an MD and an LCPC and six years of professional experience. She draws on a mix of evidence-informed methods, including cognitive behavioral techniques, to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and reactions to trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Her background includes supporting clients through addictions, anger, compassion fatigue, and life transitions while also addressing issues such as self-esteem, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose and self-love. Her manner is calm, grounded, and approachable, fostering an environment where thoughts and feelings can be explored without judgment.
She emphasizes clients' existing strengths, helping them build practical skills and greater resilience as they face difficult emotions and changes. Sessions blend empathy with concrete strategies so clients can process what’s weighing on them while also developing tools to cope and move forward.
Ehame encourages people to take the first step toward support and meets clients with warmth and a light sense of humor that can ease challenging work. She works collaboratively to tailor care to each person's needs and goals, helping them grow at a pace that feels manageable.
Approach-Oriented Online Therapy with Practical Tools
This therapist often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and building practical skills to change behaviors and emotional responses. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many everyday challenges.She also uses client-centered methods that emphasize empathy, active listening, and meeting clients where they are, creating space for people to explore feelings and values in a nonjudgmental way. Emotionally-focused principles are sometimes incorporated to help clients better understand and process strong emotions and relational patterns.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work, and the therapist collaborates with each person to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process helps shape a tailored plan rather than relying on any single technique.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow flexible scheduling and access from different locations. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care during busy schedules or life transitions while enabling therapists and licensed professionals to deliver empathic, skills-focused treatment adapted to each client's routine.
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Experience
6+ years
Licensed
Maryland
Languages
English