About Felicia
Felicia Hensley-Whitaker is a Licensed Professional Counselor who aims to help people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, or life changes. She writes short, clear goals with clients and focuses on practical next steps.
Her tone is warm and relational, and she tries to make sessions feel straightforward and steady for worried people tuning in on a phone or taking a break from the day. With 25 years of experience, she brings a long history of working with many different concerns.
Background and approach
She has supported people struggling with depression, bipolar mood challenges, grief, addiction, and trauma and abuse. Relationship worries, parenting strain, career stress, and intimacy issues are also within her practice focus. Her work leans on client-centered principles that prioritize each person's goals and strengths.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes. Solution-focused ideas help keep sessions goal-oriented and practical. Felicia is licensed as an LPC in Louisiana and in Texas.
She has experience with people connected to the military and with caregivers facing stress. She speaks English and provides services from Louisiana while working with clients located in the United States. In session she will listen first, then offer tools that fit the situation.
People often leave with clear steps to practice between meetings and ways to handle the next stressful moment. She emphasizes collaboration and steady progress toward realistic goals.
How therapeutic approaches work in online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on what matters to the person in front of the clinician. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people clarify their goals and strengths. This approach is useful for anxiety, relationship worries, and life transitions because it keeps the person's priorities central.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts, feelings, and actions and tests small changes to see what helps. In online sessions this can mean practicing new ways of thinking, trying brief behavioral experiments between meetings, and tracking results together. It is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques together, and adjust based on how the client responds. Goals, comfort with certain methods, and daily life demands guide what is used in sessions.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow visual connection and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit short reflections into a busy day or to continue progress between meetings. These formats help people maintain steady work on goals while balancing other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Texas
- Languages
- English
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