About Queena
Queena Howard, LCPC, helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, and addiction find clearer steps forward. She focuses on practical changes that can improve day-to-day life. Her approach is steady and calm, aimed at helping people regain a sense of purpose and joy.
Queena uses straightforward tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She combines that with motivational interviewing to build commitment to change, and mindfulness to strengthen present-moment coping.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be action-oriented while also acknowledging past losses and difficult experiences. With 21 years of practice, Queena draws on a broad background helping people with mood disorders, substance use, trauma, grief, relationship strain, and caregiving stress. Her work includes attention to co-occurring concerns such as chronic illness, ADHD, and personality-related patterns.
She frames problems in practical terms and looks for small, manageable steps clients can try between meetings. Queena works with adults who want focused, time-sensitive support. She balances gentle challenge with empathy to help people take the next steps they choose.
Her style is calm and intentional, and she encourages clients to set clear goals for recovery and wellness. Her practice is based in Illinois. Sessions are offered in English and include a mix of conversation, skills practice, and goal-setting to help clients move toward more stable, fulfilling routines.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's goals so the session follows what matters most to them. It helps when someone needs a respectful space to sort feelings and decide on next steps.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going and try small experiments to test new ways of acting. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems, and many everyday challenges.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and combine methods that fit those needs. Together they set short-term goals and adjust the plan as progress and preferences become clear.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chats work for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or when travel is difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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