Dennis Hounshell
Practical counseling for everyday struggles
LPC Missouri
- Experience
- 20 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Family
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Languages
- English
About Dennis
Dennis Hounshell is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri with 20 years of experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and addiction.
Background and approach
He also supports people working through parenting strain, relationship struggles, and compassion fatigue. Dennis aims to create an open space where clients can talk freely about what is hardest to say.
He keeps language plain and conversations direct so people can quickly understand options and next steps. Sessions center on practical strategies and steady listening.
He often combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going, with principles from the Gottman Method to improve communication and reduce repeated fights. Those approaches are used to address issues like panic attacks, mood disorders, and feeling isolated.
Work with him typically includes setting clear goals, practicing skills between sessions, and checking progress over time. He helps people untangle family-of-origin patterns, fatherhood questions, and persistent feelings of guilt or emptiness.
The focus is on steps that make daily life more manageable. Beginning therapy can feel daunting and he acknowledges that first step takes courage.
The overall aim is to offer practical help, steady presence, and tools people can use outside of sessions to feel better and stay connected to what matters.
Approaches online that focus on communication and thought patterns
Dennis uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people recognize and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety, depression, and panic. That approach often includes small experiments and practical homework to test new ways of thinking and acting.He also draws on ideas from the Gottman Method to strengthen communication and reduce recurring conflicts. Those ideas guide conversations about how partners interact and teach simple skills to manage fights and rebuild connection.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. He will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video is useful when visual cues matter, phone works well when bandwidth is low, live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing written support. These formats offer flexibility for scheduling, shorter check-ins on the same day, and ways to keep practicing skills between meetings.
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Experience
20+ years
Licensed in
Missouri
Languages
English