About Tracye
Dr. Tracye Herndon welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, major life changes, or struggles with addiction. She meets people where they are and works to build a respectful, trusting connection.
Her approach is practical and focused on helping clients find tools that fit their daily life. She brings three decades of clinical experience as an LPC in the District of Columbia. Sessions are person-centered and tailored to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Dr. Herndon listens closely to understand history, values, and goals before suggesting ways forward. Her work blends several approaches so therapy can be adjusted as progress is made.
She uses elements of cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behaviors. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat over time and on motivational interviewing to support change when readiness is mixed. Areas she commonly addresses include anxiety, depression, grief and loss, addictions, trauma and abuse, caregiver stress, and challenges related to identity and relationships.
She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, body image, and life transitions. Dr. Herndon encourages practical skill building alongside exploration of deeper issues.
That can mean creating a toolbox of coping strategies, practicing new ways to communicate, or developing a plan for managing cravings or mood shifts. She speaks English and works with each person to set realistic goals for therapy.
How Dr. Herndon Uses Therapeutic Approaches Online
Dr. Herndon often blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify patterns and build new skills. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and working at the client’s pace to clarify goals and values. Cognitive behavioral methods break problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offer concrete tools to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful habits.She also uses motivational interviewing to support people who feel unsure about change. That approach emphasizes exploring ambivalence, strengthening personal motivation, and setting small, achievable steps. The therapist and client decide together which approaches fit best based on goals, history, and what feels comfortable.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls provide face-to-face interaction for in-depth work, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera, and live chat or text messaging allow quick check-ins, short coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people keep therapy consistent while balancing work, caregiving, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- 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
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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