About Alicyn
Dr. Alicyn Hennis is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 24 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and phobias. She works with adults and caregivers who are worn down by life changes, trauma, relationship strain, or parenting challenges.
Her style is direct and warm, aimed at finding practical steps that make daily life easier. She focuses on building a real relationship in sessions. That means listening first, then setting small goals together.
Background and approach
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness practices to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different, kinder ways of responding. Dr. Hennis also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect reactions today.
That approach can help when abandonment, family of origin issues, or attachment concerns are part of the problem. Sessions often include exercises to practice new patterns between meetings as well as discussion during sessions.
Her background includes years working with children who experienced trauma and the adults who care for them, though her current practice supports a broader range of concerns such as depression, eating and food-related issues, ADHD, and coping after loss or separation. She aims to help people find what works in their everyday routines. Therapy with Dr.
Hennis tends to be collaborative and practical. She helps people set achievable steps, uses mindfulness to reduce overwhelm, and applies cognitive techniques to change repetitive thoughts. Her goal is to help clients feel steadier and more capable over time.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape reactions today and focuses on building safer ways of relating to others; it can help when abandonment or family of origin concerns affect current relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches straightforward skills to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, phobias, depression, and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will try methods, adjust them, and keep what helps the most in real life.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face when a visual connection matters. Phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to send quick updates, get prompts between sessions, or work through moments when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy routine and keep steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- 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
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Texas, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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