Dr. Alicyn Hennis
Compassionate, practical support for family challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed in
- Texas, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Alicyn
Dr. Alicyn Hennis helps with common and complex family and parenting concerns. She supports people coping with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges around parenting, relationships, and family problems.
She also addresses issues like depression, ADHD, anger, low self-esteem, intimacy-related concerns, eating and food-related issues, and career stress. Dr. Hennis brings a calm, straightforward presence and focuses on practical steps that families and parents can use at home.
Background and approach
Her style centers on building a real relationship with each person. She listens first, then works with clients to identify strengths and small changes that make a difference. Sessions often include skill practice and thinking changes that can reduce distress between meetings.
She uses plain language and keeps goals concrete so parents can try strategies right away. Dr. Hennis holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential - LPC - and has been counseling since 2002.
That long experience informs how she supports people through transitions, grief, and moments of crisis. She has particular experience with children who have experienced trauma and with their caregivers. Clinically, she draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to help people notice thoughts, change unhelpful patterns, and find calm in stressful moments.
Attachment-Based and Client-Centered approaches shape how she helps people repair relationships and build trust. She blends methods to match each person’s needs and family situation. Her practice is based in Texas and sessions are conducted in English.
Parents who want practical, steady support for everyday family challenges will find clear, action-focused guidance.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Dr. Hennis commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy in her online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce stress and mood symptoms. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices that can lower anxiety and improve emotional balance.She also draws on Attachment-Based and Client-Centered ideas when working with parents and caregivers. Attachment-based work focuses on repairing trust and improving how people connect with each other. Client-centered work means sessions are guided by each person’s concerns and goals rather than a set script. Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process, and the therapist collaborates with clients to choose what fits their needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. That flexibility can make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules, practice skills between meetings, and get steady support during life changes. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and tools so they work well in each format, helping clients move toward their goals from home.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Texas, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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