Pamela Gerdes , LPC

Pamela Gerdes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Idaho with 10 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people grow toward healing and wholeness, working with concerns such as stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, relationship and family difficulties, parenting challenges, self-esteem and confidence, intimacy-related issues, anger, career transitions, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.

With lived experience as a foster and adoptive mom, she has particular insight into the needs of foster and adoptive families and the complex emotions that can arise around adoption and attachment. Pamela also offers faith-based and Biblically informed counseling for those who seek that perspective, and she acknowledges and supports people who have experienced hurt related to faith communities.

Her approach centers on meeting individuals where they are and treating each person as the expert of their own story. Pamela uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), solution-focused strategies, and a client-centered, strength-based framework to help clients identify practical steps forward. She seeks to create an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be explored honestly and where clients and therapist collaborate on goals and change.