Kamay Gaboda, LCMHC, LPC

Kamay Gaboda offers a practical, skills-focused approach grounded in cognitive behavioral methods. She uses clear strategies to address stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship strain, and depression. Kamay speaks plainly and helps clients break problems into manageable steps. She brings two decades of clinical experience from North Carolina to each conversation.

With 20 years in mental health, Kamay has helped people in residential and outpatient settings, and in addiction treatment programs. Her background includes work with trauma, substance use, and co-occurring concerns such as depression, panic, and mood differences. She has delivered individual, couples, and group sessions across community mental health and private treatment settings.

Kamay draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered approaches when they fit a person’s goals. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy are available tools she brings into treatment as needed.

Sessions focus on practical tools - thought records, behavior experiments, emotional skills, and values-based planning. Kamay aims to build a steady therapeutic relationship and to help clients set short-term goals. She also addresses specific areas like abandonment, commitment issues, dissociation, and substance-related concerns.

People who reach out can expect straightforward guidance, homework that fits daily life, and collaborative planning. Kamay supports those navigating divorce, family problems, first responder stress, and questions around identity and kink culture with direct, nonjudgmental care.

CBT and Acceptance-based Options for Online Support

Kamay commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT sessions focus on practical steps like tracking thought patterns, trying behavior experiments, and building coping routines for anxiety, depression, and addiction concerns.

She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify personal values and to build willingness around difficult feelings. Client-centered techniques are used to keep the conversation grounded in the client's own goals and pace. These approaches aim to be collaborative; Kamay will work with each person to choose the methods that best match their needs and preferences.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice, phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth way to check in, and messaging or live chat work well for brief updates and ongoing coaching. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or other commitments while keeping sessions focused on real-life steps and progress.