About Tracye
Dr. Tracye Herndon helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, loss, or big life changes. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who draws on three decades of experience to meet people where they are.
Her approach aims to make therapy practical and manageable for busy lives. She listens carefully and builds a plan that fits each person’s goals. Sessions focus on clear skills and steps people can use between meetings.
How Tracye works
She combines client-centered dialogue with targeted strategies to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including depression, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy and relationship struggles, body image and eating issues, anger, and self-esteem. She also helps with substance and behavioral addictions, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, caregiver stress, and challenges tied to chronic illness.
Dr. Herndon brings experience working with issues related to adoption and foster care, attachment and abandonment, blended family stress, aging and geriatric concerns, and cancer caregiving. She pays attention to identity questions and supports LGBTQ people navigating life transitions and relationships.
Therapy sessions are collaborative and goal-oriented. She may use practical exercises, motivational techniques, and insight-oriented conversation to help build a toolbox of coping skills. The aim is steady progress and clearer choices for moving forward.
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What Tracye works with
The areas below are the ones Tracye selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | District of Columbia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a trusting, respectful partnership; it helps people process identity questions, grief, and relationship concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits. Motivational Interviewing is a conversational method that helps people find their own reasons to change and supports goals like reducing substance use or improving self-care.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend techniques to try. That process is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging can make it easier to get regular support. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a simple option for a focused check-in. Live chat or text messaging work well for brief updates, coaching-style exchanges, or when writing thoughts out feels most helpful. These options aim to fit therapy into busy schedules and different lifestyles.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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