- Guilt and shame
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
About Alena
Alena Houshova is a Kansas LCPC - Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with seven years of experience. She works with people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She also lists work around guilt and shame among other areas such as addiction and post-traumatic stress.
Alena centers sessions on open conversation and clear goals. She uses practical methods to help people name what feels stuck and try small changes that can reduce pressure in daily life. Sessions focus on concrete skills, clearer thinking, and learning new ways to respond when difficult memories or strong emotions appear.
Her approach draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered principles. That means she helps people notice unhelpful patterns, practice new behaviors, and reflect on values that matter. She also uses elements from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when useful.
Experience working with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, addiction, traumatic brain injury, and women’s issues informs her work. She describes helping people with forgiveness, self-love, and the specific burden of guilt and shame. Practical coping skills and steady, direct conversations are typical parts of sessions.
People meet to talk through what they want to change, try out new strategies between sessions, and adjust plans as progress unfolds. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire through the site and schedule a first session using the provided booking flow.
How her clinical approaches guide online work
Alena uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and connect with what matters to them. ACT focuses on building willingness to feel difficult emotions while taking actions that reflect personal values. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thinking patterns that keep problems going and to practice specific behavior changes that can reduce distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will help clients decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences, and adapt techniques over time. This is a collaborative process where choices are revisited as progress and challenges appear.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. They also make it possible to maintain continuity of care when life changes introduce practical barriers to in-person visits.
Areas of expertise
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Additional focus areas
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
7+ years
Listed in
Kansas
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she work with?
She works with relationship issues, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Her additional focus areas include guilt and shame, addiction, attachment issues, and post-traumatic stress.
How would she approach feelings of guilt or shame?
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and practice different responses. Work often includes naming patterns and trying concrete skills between sessions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has seven years of professional experience as a clinician working with the listed concerns. That includes work related to adoption and foster care, traumatic brain injury, and women’s issues.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LCPC - Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Kansas. Her practice location is listed as Kansas.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats does she offer?
Session formats are not specified in the biography. Please confirm current session options before booking a session.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. Exact pricing depends on the chosen plan and location.
How do I start working with her?
Begin by selecting the See online therapy options button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a first session through the platform.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.