Tressa Henson, LPC

Tressa Henson is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and life transitions. She works with clients on relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, career questions, and trauma and abuse recovery. Her approach blends counseling and coaching to help people move toward practical goals.

With 17 years of experience, she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside mindfulness and motivational strategies. Sessions often focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts, building new coping skills, and practicing small changes that add up over time. Tressa favors straightforward tools clients can use between meetings.

She also draws on narrative and solution-focused methods to help people reframe difficult stories and set clear, achievable steps forward. This can help with issues like chronic illness, aging concerns, financial stress, or problems with communication. The aim is to make progress feel tangible and manageable.

Tressa describes her style as respectful, compassionate, and nonjudgmental. She mixes coaching skills with therapeutic work so clients leave sessions with a plan and next steps. Her work emphasizes empowerment and steady growth.

Clients looking to begin will find practical guidance on coping, emotion regulation, and decision-making. Tressa practices in Michigan and uses a collaborative, down-to-earth style to help people meet their goals.

How Tressa Uses Approaches Online

CBT helps people spot and change thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. Online CBT sessions with Tressa focus on practical exercises, thought records, and behavior experiments that clients can try between sessions to reduce anxiety, low mood, or anger.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lessen reactivity and improve focus. In online meetings she guides short mindfulness exercises and teaches ways to bring awareness into daily routines to manage stress and chronic pain.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Tressa will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they choose methods and adjust them over time so the work fits the client’s life and priorities.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat provides a brief check-in option, and messaging is useful for ongoing support between meetings. These choices make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other responsibilities.