About Connie
Connie Pope is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy concerns, and struggles with addiction and ADHD. Connie emphasizes practical, down-to-earth support for people facing big life changes and recurring stress.
She keeps sessions centered on the person's own goals and strengths. Conversations are straightforward and collaborative. Connie uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thought patterns and from acceptance and commitment therapy to build values-based action.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to help reduce reactivity and increase moment-to-moment awareness. Client-centered methods guide the pace and tone so each person feels heard and respected. Existential ideas help when clients face meaning questions or identity shifts.
Connie has worked in a range of settings over six years, supporting people through family conflict, adoption and foster care concerns, bereavement, and recovery from domestic violence or substance issues. She also addresses blended family dynamics, fatherhood questions, and aging-related worries. In sessions she helps people set small, achievable steps.
She offers strategies for communication, managing anger, and handling compassion fatigue. The aim is to leave people better able to handle the next hard day and clearer about what they want moving forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting controlled by them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning. It works well for anxiety, depression, and stress management. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience, using nonjudgmental listening to help them find their own solutions and build confidence.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Connie will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most useful. Together they will set goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most in real life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not convenient. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English