Zaundrea Young , LPC

Zaundrea Young is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri with nine years of clinical experience. She supports people facing stress and anxiety, struggles with addictions, family conflict, and the impacts of trauma and abuse, guiding them toward more balanced and manageable daily life. As a counselor she emphasizes a nonjudgmental, open atmosphere where clients can share thoughts and emotions safely and be heard without pressure.

Her work centers on empowering individuals to take the steps that feel right for them - whether that means improving relationships, navigating grief, addressing mood concerns such as depression or bipolar symptoms, building self-esteem, or coping with life transitions and parenting challenges. Zaundrea draws on approaches that prioritize the client perspective and practical strategies to reduce distress and enhance coping skills. She recognizes that seeking change requires courage, and she aims to provide steady support and encouragement throughout the therapeutic journey.

Licensed Professional Counselor is the meaning of the LPC credential, a designation that reflects state licensure to provide counseling services. Zaundrea offers care in English and brings experience working with a range of concerns including LGBTQ matters, intimacy and relationship issues, anger, and attention-related difficulties such as ADHD.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the client's own perspective and strengths, creating a respectful space where the therapist follows the client's lead to encourage self-exploration and personal growth. This approach can be especially helpful for issues involving self-esteem, relationship concerns, grief, and emotional processing.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps clients identify and adjust unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering practical tools to manage symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress, and to address patterns that contribute to addictions or problematic coping. It emphasizes actionable strategies that can be used between sessions.

Mindfulness Therapy introduces present-moment awareness and simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and support emotional regulation, which many people find useful for managing stress, anxiety, and the aftereffects of trauma.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist works collaboratively with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences. This collaborative exploration shapes a flexible plan that can change as progress is made.

Online therapy offers practical benefits such as scheduling flexibility and easier access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options allow clients to connect with licensed professionals and therapists from different settings and life circumstances, making it simpler to maintain continuity of support amid busy schedules and life transitions.