About Alena
Alena Houshova uses a blend of practical therapies to help people navigate relationship problems, trauma, parenting challenges, and low self-esteem. She brings seven years of experience and works from a straightforward, compassionate approach. Alena holds an LCPC, which means she is licensed to practice counseling in Kansas.
In sessions she focuses on clear, achievable steps that fit daily life. She helps people name difficult feelings and try small changes that lead to better days.
Background and approach
Conversations are direct and caring, with an emphasis on what a person wants to change. Her work often includes strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept hard emotions while moving toward what matters to them.
When trauma or abuse is a concern, she emphasizes safety, pacing, and building skills to manage symptoms. For parenting challenges she supports parents in strengthening routines, limits, and emotional connection to reduce stress at home. Alena has additional experience with adoption and foster care, attachment concerns, substance issues, post-traumatic stress, and women’s issues.
She adapts her approach based on each person’s history and goals. People who work with her can expect a collaborative style. Sessions aim to be practical and respectful, focusing on small, useful changes rather than labels or quick fixes.
Using evidence-based approaches in online care
Alena uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and changing patterns that keep problems going. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult feelings while taking steps toward a meaningful life. ACT can be helpful for managing ongoing stress, trauma responses, and major life changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels useful. From there she recommends techniques and adjusts methods as progress is made, so the plan fits the person rather than the other way around.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow fuller face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, mood tracking, or when someone prefers typing to speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy days and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Kansas
- Languages
- English