Felicia Hensley-Whitaker
Compassionate counselor for life's hard transitions
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Louisiana, Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Felicia
Felicia Hensley-Whitaker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana with 25 years of experience. She aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or major life changes. Her tone is warm and relational, and she focuses on meeting each person where they are.
Felicia uses a client-centered approach, which means sessions begin by listening to what matters most to the individual. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
Together she and the client set clear, practical goals to make life more manageable. Her background includes long-term counseling work and licensure in both Louisiana and Texas. Over the years she has supported people facing grief, trauma, addiction, parenting challenges, and issues around self-esteem and identity.
She also has experience related to first responder stress and family problems. In sessions she keeps the work straightforward and focused on small changes that add up. Parents and caregivers who are juggling many demands may find a practical, steady approach helpful.
She emphasizes collaboration and respects each person’s pace. Felicia welcomes discussion about career strain, relationship patterns, and emotional overwhelm. She works with concerns such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and intimacy-related difficulties.
People can expect supportive listening plus concrete steps to move forward.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Felicia commonly uses client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral therapy. Client-centered work means the therapist listens carefully and builds the session around the person's priorities, which helps when discussing parenting stress, relationship patterns, or grief. Cognitive behavioral therapy involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms.Finding the right approach is a team effort. She will talk with the client about goals and preferences and then recommend one or a combination of methods. Adjustments are made as work progresses so the plan stays relevant to the client's needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling family, work, and other obligations. Video calls let conversations feel face-to-face, phone sessions are a simpler option when on the go, and live chat or text messaging allow shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep continuity of care and to fit therapy into a busy life.
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.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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