About Queena
Queena Howard, LCPC, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, mood changes, addictive patterns, and life transitions. She takes a straightforward approach so clients can make meaningful changes in months rather than years. Her tone is calm and practical, and she aims to help people find clearer purpose and greater joy.
Queena draws on more than 21 years of clinical work in Illinois. She uses a mix of approaches that focus on current problems and on understanding patterns that keep people stuck.
Background and approach
Sessions are focused and goal-oriented, with space to examine past influences when that helps progress. Her work often centers on mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, coping with grief and loss, relationship and intimacy issues, and challenges tied to addiction and recovery. She also supports people managing ADHD-related struggles alongside sleep, eating, or anger difficulties.
Queena blends Client-Centered listening with Cognitive Behavioral tools and motivational techniques. That means clients get practical skills to change thoughts and behaviors, while also being heard and encouraged to set realistic goals. People who choose her can expect clear steps between sessions, simple coping strategies, and an emphasis on moving forward.
She encourages small, doable changes and tracks progress as part of regular sessions.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person as they are. The therapist offers empathy and support while helping clients identify what matters most and set personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits that reduce anxiety, low mood, and impulsivity.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean emphasizing skills practice in one period and reviewing life patterns in another, depending on what helps the client move forward.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can work well for quick check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or when writing helps organize thoughts. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and accessible for everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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