About Cindy
Cindy Hannigan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. She works with individuals facing relationship struggles, grief, addiction, and major life changes. Her style is warm and direct, focused on practical steps that fit daily life.
Cindy uses straightforward conversation to uncover patterns that get in the way. She helps clients build better self-care, improve communication, and reduce overwhelming emotions.
Background and approach
Sessions often include simple behavioral tools and thought exercises you can try between meetings. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to reframe unhelpful thinking. Cindy also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small actions toward them.
For clients with strong attachment concerns, she incorporates attachment-based ideas to improve relationship security. Over 12 years of work in Texas inform her approach. She aims to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space for LGBTQ+ people and others who have felt marginalized.
The focus is on restoring agency and a clearer sense of direction. Therapy with Cindy is collaborative. Together clients set practical goals and track progress.
Sessions are paced to match each person’s needs and everyday responsibilities.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck. It focuses on choosing actions that match personal values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation issues.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. It teaches practical skills to challenge unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, useful for stress, anxiety, and sleep problems.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose techniques that fit their goals, needs, and daily life. That partnership helps fine-tune what is tried in sessions and what homework makes sense.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let you work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat are useful for quick reflections, brief coaching, or added support between scheduled meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain ongoing momentum.
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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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