About Abbie
Abbie Hancock is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks plainly and focuses on everyday steps that make life more manageable. Abbie draws on many approaches to tailor care to each person's needs.
She aims to make beginning therapy feel like a doable next step. With 13 years of experience, Abbie shapes sessions around practical goals and steady progress.
Background and approach
She listens first, then works with clients to build skills that fit their daily life. That might mean learning new ways to handle panic, sorting out responses to past trauma, or building routines that reduce overwhelm. Her style balances empathetic listening with clear tools.
Abbie uses methods that help people notice habits, try small changes, and learn what works. Conversations cover thoughts, feelings, and actions in ways that feel approachable and relevant. Abbie also pays attention to underlying themes like abandonment, guilt, body image, and isolation.
She helps clients tackle communication problems, control issues, and struggles with forgiveness or self-love. Sessions often focus on building safety with emotions and testing new behaviors between meetings. Practical details matter.
Sessions are offered in English and are held via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Cost varies by location and availability and is billed through a cancellable subscription. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, low motivation, and feeling aimless. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with panic, mood disorders, and anxiety. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills and can be helpful for intense emotions and impulsivity.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to a person’s goals and preferences and then recommend methods to try. That recommendation is collaborative and can be adjusted as needs change over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls let people work face to face from another location. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options make scheduling and regular contact easier for many people.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English