About Tenisha
Tenisha Pettus helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and family problems. She supports people facing anger, low self-esteem, addiction concerns, grief, intimacy questions, and career or life transitions.
Background and approach
Tenisha welcomes discussions about LGBT issues, compassion fatigue, and a range of sexual health and alternative culture topics. Tenisha is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Florida - LMFT - with 14 years of clinical experience.
She aims to make the first steps into therapy less intimidating. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical steps clients can try between meetings.
Her way of working is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then helps people notice patterns that keep problems stuck.
Together they test small changes, track what works, and adjust plans as needed. Common tools in her sessions include cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thinking, motivational interviewing to clarify what someone truly wants, and systemic ideas to see how relationships affect behavior.
Those tools are used to address things like workplace stress, blended family tensions, substance concerns, and social anxiety. Tenisha keeps language simple and uses everyday examples to make ideas clear.
She encourages honest conversation about sexuality, kink, and intimacy when relevant. Her aim is to help people build coping skills and clearer ways of relating to themselves and others.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Tenisha uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. That approach is often used for anxiety, stress, social fears, and body image concerns. Motivational interviewing helps people clarify their values and find internal reasons to make changes, which is useful for addiction, career shifts, and lifestyle goals. Finding the right approach is part of the work. Tenisha will talk with clients about their goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. She views therapy as a team effort and adjusts methods as progress is made. Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging are useful for brief check-ins or when writing helps reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different life rhythms, while still focusing on steady progress.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English