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Dr. Connie Fickenscher, LPC
Stress, Anxiety
Grief
Career difficulties
Depression
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About me
Dr. Connie Fickenscher
Dr. Fickenscher is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas. She is also an LPC Supervisor for future LPC candidates in Texas who wish pass the LPC exam, providing the needed hours to help them complete their licensure.
She is the mother of three married daughters and the grandmother of eight granddaughters, which includes her own set of twins and two sets of twin granddaughters.
Professional employment:
She spent ten years as a Recreation and Retreat Coordinator for a campus of 186 individuals with physical, mental, and behavioral impairments. In the early years, the client population was mainly individuals with mild, moderate, and borderline mental retardation. In the latter years, the population moved to individuals with more profound and severe mental retardation.
The remainder of Dr. Fickenscher’s 35 working years involved working in higher educational settings.
The first ten years were spent at a university counseling center. Dr. Fickenscher was both a personal counselor and academic advisor, which included a brief time as the director of the counseling center. During her tenure there, she worked with all students attending the university. Counseling topics included homesickness, indecision about the future, relationship issues, Gay Lesbian Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) issues, Depression, Grief, Divorce, etc. She additionally worked with crisis situations involving university students.
During the next fifteen years, she worked at a university in North Texas. Her work experience there involved Academic Counseling for the undecided students campus-wide for ten years and then as an Academic Counselor in the Honor College for five years. It was during this time (December 2005) that Dr. Fickenscher received her PH.D. from a Texas University.
The most recent ten years of her professional life involved teaching as full-time faculty at an online university, offering Counseling and Human Behavior classes. The courses were mainly grief and bereavement and diversity courses. Additionally, Dr. Fickenscher mentored numerous doctoral dissertations.
Counseling specialties include homesickness, indecision about the future, relationship issues, Gay Lesbian Bisexual, and Transgender (GLBT) issues, Depression, Grief, Divorce, etc. She additionally worked with crisis situations involving the university students
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Professional experience
30yrs in practice
Stress, Anxiety
Grief
Career difficulties
Depression
Additional areas of focus: Intimacy-related issues, Parenting issues, Self esteem, Compassion fatigue, Aging and Geriatric Issues, Caregiver issues and stress, Communication problems, Coping with Natural or Human-Caused Disaster, Divorce and separation, Domestic Violence, Family of Origin Issues, Hearing Impaired, Hospice and End of Life Counseling, Isolation / loneliness, Life purpose, Postpartum Depression, Self-love
Clinical approaches: Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Solution-Focused Therapy
License information
TX LPC 14384
Reviews
These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Dr. Connie Fickenscher. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with BetterHelp might be different.
Dr Fickenscher listens to your problems and is good at offer solutions.
Written on Jan 03, 2024 after therapy with Connie for 4 weeks on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, addictions, self esteem, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes
Dr.Fickenscher is very knowledgeable and good at what she does
Written on May 17, 2023 after therapy with Connie for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, eating disorders, parenting issues, self esteem, career difficulties, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, and adhd
So far so good. Glad and appreciate that she checks in to make sure she is a good fit (not my 1st therapy rodeo and quite intense) Very solid suggestions
Written on Jan 03, 2023 after therapy with Connie for 3 weeks on issues concerning addictions, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, and adhd
Dr F has been such a great help to me the past few months! I definitely have improved with her help.
Written on Nov 07, 2022 after therapy with Connie for 2 months on issues concerning stress, anxiety, career difficulties, and coping with life changes
My time with Dr. Fickenscher was invaluable. BetterHelp provided the platform and really found a therapist that fit my needs. It felt like I knew Dr. Fickenscher personally from our first session. She is attentive, supportive, thought provoking and challenging, which were all things I was looking for in a therapist. I would highly recommend Dr. F! Thank you!
Written on Mar 01, 2022 after therapy with Connie for 2 months on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, sleeping disorders, self esteem, anger management, and career difficulties
Dr Fickenscher listens and keeps the dialogue and thought flowing effortlessly. She offers ways to improve upon my concerns. She is supportive, objective and caring. I look forward to our weekly sessions.
Written on Nov 03, 2021 after therapy with Connie for 2 weeks on issues concerning stress, anxiety, lgbt, relationship issues, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleeping disorders, career difficulties, coping with life changes, and coaching