Genera Gilliam, LCMHC

Genera Gilliam is a licensed clinician based in North Carolina with 16 years of professional experience helping individuals, families, and groups navigate life’s challenges. As an LCMHC - a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - she blends practical strategies with empathic support to help people move toward meaningful change.

Her counseling style emphasizes strengths and solutions while remaining firmly client-centered. She integrates cognitive behavioral techniques and family systems perspectives, and she also draws from mindfulness and solution-focused approaches to tailor treatment to each person’s goals. This flexible use of evidence-based methods aims to help clients adjust thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors in ways that support lasting improvement.

Genera has worked across school, agency, and private practice settings, providing individual, family, and group counseling. She has experience addressing a broad range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, depression, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, anger, bipolar and mood disorders, ADHD, and coping with major life changes. Additional focus areas include caregiver stress, blended family dynamics, communication difficulties, hospice and end-of-life counseling, veteran and armed forces issues, multicultural and discrimination-related concerns, panic disorder, self-harm, and social anxiety.

She approaches treatment collaboratively, encouraging participation from clients and their support systems when appropriate and coordinating with other community resources to expand support. Goals and techniques are shaped by each client’s reasons for seeking counseling, with an emphasis on practical tools that foster resilience and forward movement. Genera combines clinical skill with a respectful, person-focused approach to help people clarify needs and make constructive changes.