About Cindy
Cindy Hannigan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and addiction. She also supports people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting challenges, and questions around intimacy and self-esteem. She works with clients who are navigating career shifts, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and the strain of life changes.
Cindy uses conversational, straightforward sessions to help people identify what matters to them and what gets in the way.
Background and approach
She listens closely and helps people set small, practical goals. Sessions often focus on building skills for emotion regulation, improving communication, and increasing daily routines that ease sleeping and mood problems. Her approach blends several well-known methods like cognitive behavioral work, acceptance and commitment ideas, and attachment-focused perspectives.
That mix lets her address thinking patterns, relationship patterns, and values-based action. Cindy also draws on dialectical behavior ideas when a client needs skills for distress tolerance and emotional balance. Clients can expect a collaborative style that centers their goals and strengths.
Cindy guides people through steps they can try between sessions and adjusts plans as progress or barriers appear. The work aims to reduce symptoms and help people reconnect to things they care about. With 12 years of experience as an LPC in Texas, she brings practical experience across a wide range of concerns.
Sessions are offered in English and available via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How these approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people identify what matters most and take small steps toward those values while accepting difficult feelings. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy targets patterns of thinking and behavior, teaching practical skills to reduce symptoms and change unhelpful habits. It often helps with anxiety, mood concerns, sleeping issues, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on relationship patterns and how early bonds affect current connections, which can aid intimacy-related struggles and relationship distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they choose which strategies to try, and plans are adjusted as progress or challenges show up, keeping the process collaborative and goal-focused.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good when face-to-face conversation and visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can fit tight schedules and offer quick, ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other commitments while still working with licensed professionals.
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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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