About Tressa
Tressa Henson is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, and major life changes. She also supports concerns tied to relationships, parenting, career shifts, trauma and abuse, and issues around self-esteem and purpose. Her style is straightforward and practical.
Sessions focus on clear goals and steps a person can use between meetings. She blends talking, goal-setting, and skills practice so changes feel achievable over time.
Background and approach
With 17 years of experience, she draws on approaches like cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative and solution-focused work. That mix lets her tailor sessions to what a person needs right now, whether that is shifting negative thoughts, building new habits, or making small changes that add up. She brings a calm and respectful presence to sessions.
People can expect a nonjudgmental space where their concerns are named and prioritized. The work emphasizes skill-building and self-direction, with the counselor offering guidance and feedback along the way. Tressa practices in Michigan and offers several online session formats.
Her background includes long-term clinical experience helping adults navigate life stressors, career decisions, parenting strain, and recovery from trauma. She aims to help people move toward clearer choices and steadier days.
Approaches that guide online work and practical sessions
CBT, or cognitive behavioral therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, depression, or stress. It breaks problems into manageable steps and gives concrete tools people can use between sessions.Motivational interviewing centers on a person's own reasons for change and helps increase motivation when someone feels stuck. It works well for choices around career shifts, health behaviors, or making life changes by exploring ambivalence and building commitment.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and personal style. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging works for ongoing support between sessions. These options aim to make it easier to connect from different places and schedules while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Texas
- Languages
- English