About Tracye
Dr. Tracye Herndon greets people with warmth and steady attention. She is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in the District of Columbia with three decades of clinical work.
She focuses on practical ways to reduce stress, manage anxiety, and cope with loss and major life changes. Her approach centers on listening first. Sessions are person-centered and tailored to each person’s priorities.
She draws on straightforward strategies to build coping skills and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to identify small, achievable steps that fit real life. Over 30 years she has worked with people facing addiction, trauma, mood disorders, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She also helps those dealing with caregiver strain, chronic illness, body image, and identity matters.
Her background includes many settings where she provided assessment, education, and treatment for substance use and co-occurring issues. Her style mixes client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and motivational interviewing. She also uses psychodynamic ideas and Imago relationship concepts when those frameworks help clarify patterns and goals.
Treatment plans are practical and evolve as needs change. Clients can expect a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk through painful experiences and try new coping tools. She offers a pragmatic focus on what works now while also addressing deeper patterns that affect relationships and self-esteem.
If you want clear steps and steady support, she helps people build a sustainable toolbox.
How her approaches work in online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s experience and priorities. It involves reflective listening and tailoring conversations to what matters most, which helps when someone needs practical support for stress, identity concerns, or self-esteem. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That means sessions may emphasize skill-building in one phase and deeper pattern work in another, depending on your needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to add flexibility. Video works well for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a session fits into a work break. Live chat and text messaging let people check in between talks or use brief, focused exchanges when a shorter touchpoint is helpful. These options make it easier to maintain steady progress while fitting therapy into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
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- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- 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
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia
- Languages
- English