Alena Houshova
Compassionate, practical support for parenting and relationships
- Credentials
- LCPC
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed in
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Alena
Alena Houshova is a licensed counselor who uses gentle, practical therapy methods to help people facing relationship challenges and parenting concerns. She is an LCPC - Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - based in Kansas with seven years of experience. She focuses on clear, down-to-earth support so clients can talk about what matters and try new ways to cope.
Her work centers on common struggles like trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and big life changes.
Background and approach
She also addresses related areas such as adoption and foster care, attachment difficulties, substance issues, and women's concerns. She names everyday goals like feeling more confident, improving family dynamics, and managing strong emotions. In sessions she aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space.
Conversations are straightforward and focused on what helps in daily life. She draws on proven tools to build new habits and to reduce unhelpful patterns. Alena uses several therapy styles to fit different needs, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Emotionally-Focused Therapy.
She combines these approaches to set realistic steps, practice new skills, and strengthen important relationships. Her process invites collaboration: clients and therapist decide together what to try next. For people in Kansas seeking practical, compassionate help with parenting, relationships, or recovery from past hurts, she offers calm, steady support.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Alena commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while focusing on actions that match their values. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thought patterns and practice small, concrete changes that improve daily functioning. Emotionally-Focused Therapy is part of her approach for addressing relationship and attachment concerns by helping people understand and shift emotional responses.Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to your goals and preferences. Together they clarify what you hope to change and try approaches that feel practical and manageable.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make scheduling easier around busy family life. These formats let people check in more often, practice skills between sessions, and keep therapy consistent when routines change. Licensed professionals can use these options to provide flexible support while focusing on achievable steps and emotional safety.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
What is her general therapy style?
How long has she practiced?
Where is she licensed to practice?
Can sessions be done in other languages or across countries?
Which session formats are available?
How are sessions paid for?
What are the first steps to begin?
Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Alena
- Takes a few minutes
- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point