About Alicyn
Dr. Alicyn Hennis welcomes people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship strains. She also helps with parenting stresses, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and identity concerns related to LGBT issues.
Dr. Hennis uses straightforward conversation and practical tools to help people manage day-to-day problems and feel more able to cope. She has worked in counseling since 2002 and holds an LPC credential, bringing 24 years of experience.
Much of her past work involved children who experienced trauma and their caregivers, though she sees adults as well.
Background and approach
Her background gives her familiarity with attachment difficulties and family of origin issues. In sessions she aims to build a real, supportive relationship. She listens first, then helps people spot patterns that keep them stuck.
She uses short exercises, breathing and grounding practices, and stepwise plans to try in between sessions. Cognitive behavioral techniques are a common tool in her work. She helps people notice thoughts and test whether those thoughts are helpful, then try small behavioral experiments to shift outcomes.
Mindfulness practices are used to steady attention and reduce overwhelming feelings. She also draws from attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships shape current reactions. That perspective can be useful for intimacy concerns, abandonment fears, and caregiver stress.
The overall approach aims to be practical, calm, and focused on what the person wants to change.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current reactions. It helps people understand patterns around intimacy, abandonment fears, and caregiver stress so they can try new ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches simple skills to test unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, panic, and anger by breaking problems into small, manageable steps.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your goals and needs, then suggest a mix of methods. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues; phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to use video. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, mood tracking, or when a shorter, more frequent contact fits a busy schedule. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while still accessing licensed professionals and therapeutic guidance.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- 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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