About April
April Fortner is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with 16 years of experience helping people through relationship and life challenges. She focuses on clear, practical work that addresses stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, and relationship difficulties. April emphasizes a warm, nonjudgmental approach so clients can speak honestly about hard things.
She uses a mix of methods to match the person and the problem. Sessions often include listening deeply, asking questions that help clarify patterns, and practicing new ways of responding to stress or conflict.
Background and approach
For relationship work she draws on approaches that focus on connection and communication. April has supported people facing grief, trauma, mood challenges like depression and bipolar concerns, and struggles with self-esteem and body image. She also helps with parenting strains, caregiver stress, addiction, and issues around intimacy and sexual identity.
Clients can expect straightforward talk about goals and small steps to try between sessions. Her sessions can include coaching-style prompts when helpful, and she adapts strategies to fit each person’s life. April encourages collaboration on treatment direction so people feel involved in their progress.
She describes beginning therapy as a brave step and aims to make the process manageable and focused. Working online or by phone, April helps people map realistic changes and practice them in everyday life. She keeps language simple and actions concrete so clients can use what they learn right away.
How April’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered work focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. It helps people feel heard and guides the session toward their priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills to change them, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on emotions and attachment in close relationships and is often used to improve communication and rebuild connection.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. April will discuss goals and try methods that match the client’s needs and preferences. Together they adjust techniques as work progresses so the plan stays useful and realistic.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video lets people read facial cues and practice communication skills in real time. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or text are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style prompts, and tracking small changes between longer sessions.
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What this counselor 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