About April
April Hitchcock-Fofana is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 20 years of clinical experience in Michigan. She focuses on helping people cope with stress and anxiety and with the everyday problems that make life feel overwhelming. April aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can talk about hard topics and find practical steps forward.
She works with concerns that include depression, grief, relationship difficulties, self-esteem, addictions, trauma and anger.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing sleep problems, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, bipolar challenges, and ADHD-related struggles. Her background includes work with caregiver issues, chronic illness, adoption and foster care questions, and aging-related concerns. April blends client-centered work with structured methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior tools.
She uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people notice patterns, manage intense feelings, and set achievable goals. Sessions emphasize clear strategies along with listening and validation. Her style is collaborative and practical.
She helps people identify small changes that reduce distress and build confidence over time. April also pays attention to how family roles, communication problems, and past losses affect day-to-day life. People who come to her can expect a steady, straightforward approach grounded in real-world skills.
She guides clients toward stronger coping, clearer decision making, and better balance between obligations and personal needs.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on meeting people where they are, listening closely, and building goals based on each person’s priorities. It helps when someone needs a respectful space to talk and figure out what matters most to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses simple exercises to change unhelpful thinking and small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. This approach is useful when emotions feel overwhelming or when better coping and communication are goals.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. April will work with each person to find which methods fit their needs and goals. She adapts tools over time and checks in about what is helping and what needs adjustment.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people follow visual cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging can support quick reflections, written homework, or ongoing check-ins between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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