About Cindy
Cindy Hannigan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She takes a calm, straightforward approach so clients can make steady progress. Cindy works with people facing life changes, grief, addiction, and identity concerns including LGBTQ issues.
Her sessions focus on practical steps as well as understanding patterns that get in the way. She uses clear tools to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and manage intense emotions.
Background and approach
Clients learn ways to handle workplace pressure, parenting strain, and difficult family dynamics. Cindy draws on evidence-based methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based strategies. She also attends to attachment and relational patterns that shape how people connect and respond to stress.
Conversations are collaborative and paced to each person's needs. With 12 years of clinical experience, Cindy brings steady support for problems like trauma, PTSD symptoms, bipolar mood swings, and co-occurring issues. She helps people build self-esteem, address commitment and intimacy concerns, and cope with chronic illness or caregiving strain.
Her style is affirming and direct. She aims to help people find clearer goals and realistic ways to reach them. Sessions are practical, respectful, and focused on everyday change.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and decisions about life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep issues. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape reactions and closeness, helping people address patterns that affect intimacy and trust.Choosing an approach is a team process. The therapist will discuss goals and try methods that fit each person's needs and preferences. Over time the plan can be adjusted based on what is most helpful for managing symptoms and reaching goals.
Online sessions offer practical benefits like fitting therapy into a busy schedule and reducing travel time. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversations, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These options make it easier to keep consistent work toward anxiety, stress, and relationship goals with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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