About April
April Fortner is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 16 years of clinical experience. She focuses on anxiety, stress, relationship struggles, and life transitions. April aims to make starting therapy as clear and approachable as possible for people who are worried or unsure.
She creates a steady, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about feelings and difficult events. Sessions are goal-oriented and built around each person's needs. April listens first, then helps people name what matters most to them and pick small, practical steps to try between sessions.
Background and approach
Her work includes support for addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting concerns, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. She also assists people facing career stress, ADHD symptoms, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar mood shifts, and relationship communication problems. April draws on client-centered methods to keep the work focused on each person's values.
She uses cognitive behavioral tools to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and to practice new behaviors. For couples or partners she applies techniques inspired by emotionally-focused work and the Gottman Method to improve connection and communication. April understands that each person and couple arrives with a unique story.
She partners with clients to shape a plan that fits their life. Taking the first step can be hard, and she acknowledges the courage it takes to begin.
Practical approaches for online anxiety and relationship work
April uses client-centered care and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online work. Client-centered care focuses on listening, accepting each person's experience, and shaping goals that matter to the client. It helps people feel understood and decide what change they want to pursue. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior; it offers clear exercises and experiments to reduce anxiety and build new habits.She also brings emotionally-focused ideas into couple work to help partners understand core emotions and rebuild connection. Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. April will talk with clients about their goals, try methods that make sense for their situation, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging can support brief updates, coping tools between sessions, or a different way to process feelings without being on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy into day-to-day routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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