Tressa Henson
Practical support for parenting and family life
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan, Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Tressa
Tressa Henson is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns along with stress, anxiety, anger, and related issues. She offers direct, practical support to people facing change, grief, or trouble in relationships. Her style is calm and straightforward and aimed at helping clients find tools they can use every day.
She draws on 17 years of experience using approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness work, motivational interviewing, narrative techniques, and solution-focused strategies.
Background and approach
Sessions often involve talking through patterns, testing small changes, and building steps that fit a persons life. The goal is steady progress rather than quick fixes. Tressa emphasizes respect and an encouraging presence in sessions.
She uses coaching skills when helpful and treats each person as an active partner in deciding what comes next. Her work can include concrete skills for stress or anger management and practical planning around parenting and career concerns. She also addresses longer-standing issues such as trauma, grief, postpartum depression, and chronic illness-related challenges.
Tressa pays attention to cultural factors and financial or work-related stressors that affect everyday life. Her aim is to help people move forward with clearer choices and manageable steps. People can expect a blend of structured techniques and supportive conversation.
Tressa keeps interventions straightforward and rooted in the clients immediate needs. She encourages small experiments between sessions to test what works in real life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and tests new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and parenting-related patterns. Mindfulness therapy focuses on present-moment awareness and simple practices that reduce reactivity and help with emotion regulation.Choosing an approach is a joint process. The therapist will review goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels useful. That collaborative process helps match methods like CBT or mindfulness to the person's needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to schedule around work, family, and health needs. They let people practice strategies between meetings and check in more flexibly when life gets busy.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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