About April
April Fortner is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 16 years of experience. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, addictions, grief, and ADHD while keeping conversations straightforward and practical. She aims to build an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about difficult feelings.
Sessions emphasize listening first, then finding steps that feel workable in daily life. April values a personalized approach because no two situations are the same.
Background and approach
April combines client-centered work with evidence-informed methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and emotionally-focused ideas. That mix helps people name patterns, try small changes, and repair connection where it has strained. She also draws on motivational interviewing to support readiness for change.
Parents, partners, and people coping with career or life transitions often come to address practical concerns like sleep, eating, stress, and communication. She also supports those facing trauma, compassion fatigue, bipolar disorder, depression, and addiction related issues. April works with people on intimacy-related struggles, body image, attachment concerns, and blended family or parenting stress.
She explains options clearly and helps clients choose strategies they can use between sessions. Starting therapy can feel hard, and April tries to make the process manageable. She helps clients set small goals, track progress, and adjust the plan as needs change.
How proven approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. The therapist follows the client's lead, helps people name what matters most, and supports choices that feel right for them. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, uses clear steps to identify thought and behavior patterns and then tries practical changes to reduce worry, improve sleep, or manage mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. April will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit those needs. That decision is shared so clients can try techniques and adjust the plan over time.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people work face to face from different locations, phone calls are useful when video isn't possible, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports short ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days and to use different formats for check-ins, skills practice, or deeper conversations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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