About Cindy
Cindy Hannigan is a licensed professional counselor who helps people handle stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and relationship concerns. She practices in Texas and works with clients facing grief, trauma, parenting strain, career transitions, and identity questions. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at practical change rather than labels.
She uses clear tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people shift unhelpful thinking and take concrete steps forward. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques help clients focus on values and commit to small actions that matter.
Background and approach
Cindy also draws on attachment-based work to understand how early relationships shape current patterns. Sessions are collaborative. Cindy listens first, then helps set short-term goals that match a person’s life.
She uses skills practice, behavioral experiments, and emotion regulation tools when those fit the problem at hand. Her 12 years of experience inform how she tailors treatment to each person. That means mixing talk, practical homework, and moment-to-moment emotion work so people leave sessions with usable ideas.
She brings an affirming stance toward LGBTQ+ clients and others navigating identity concerns. Cindy offers multiple online formats including video calls, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit busy schedules. She frames therapy as a partnership and helps people track progress toward clearer thinking, calmer emotion, and healthier connections.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice hard thoughts and feelings while moving toward what matters most. Online ACT sessions often include values clarification and short behavioral experiments people can try between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors; over video or phone clients can practice thought records and plan real-life experiments together with the therapist.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily routine. That may mean starting with skills from CBT, adding ACT exercises for motivation, or using attachment-focused conversations to shift relationship patterns.
Online formats offer practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera use isn't possible. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions, do shorter mood-focused work, or get coaching-style support when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to keep momentum and adapt therapy to real-world demands.
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What this counselor 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