Alena Houshova, LCPC

Alena Houshova is an LCPC licensed in Kansas with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. She helps people talk through difficult feelings and practical problems at home and in close relationships.

Alena uses conversational and goal-focused methods. She listens first, then works with each person to set clear, achievable steps. Sessions often involve noticing unhelpful thinking patterns, learning skills to manage strong emotions, and practicing new ways of relating to others.

Her background includes work with adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, and post-traumatic stress. She has also supported people facing substance use, traumatic brain injury, seasonal mood shifts, and challenges linked to intellectual disability. Those concerns inform how she plans sessions and priorities.

In therapy she draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. These approaches guide practical skills work, values clarification, and relationship-focused conversations.

Alena aims to help adults who are managing parenting responsibilities, family conflict, or recovering from past harm. She asks questions, offers exercises, and checks in about what’s working so sessions stay focused and useful.

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