About Zhenique
Zhenique Israelian is a licensed mental health counselor who brings 16 years of experience to her practice in New Hampshire. She focuses on practical support for everyday stress, anxiety, trauma, and issues with self-esteem. Zhenique uses an encouraging, down-to-earth style to help people take the first steps toward feeling better.
She listens first and asks questions to understand what matters to each person. Sessions center on clear goals and simple tools clients can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Zhenique emphasizes strengths and helps people notice the resources they already have. Her work addresses life transitions and motivation, along with specific concerns like abandonment, attachment problems, and struggles around body image. She also helps people facing caregiver strain, chronic illness and pain, financial stress, and feelings of isolation.
Practical coping skills and emotional insight are combined in a straightforward way. Zhenique draws from several therapeutic approaches to match the client’s needs. She uses cognitive methods to shift unhelpful thoughts and emotion-focused strategies to process difficult memories.
Dialectical skills and attachment-based ideas appear when they best support safety and stability. People who want a collaborative, respectful therapist often do well with her approach. She helps set realistic steps and tracks progress over time.
Her practice aims to make therapy manageable for busy lives and real challenges.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current emotional needs and reactions. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and build more stable ways of relating. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and acceptance. The therapist follows the person’s lead, offering reflection and support to help people clarify their goals and values.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about their needs, goals, and preferences and then recommend a mix of methods. That plan can change as the client moves forward and new priorities emerge, so collaboration guides each step.
Online therapy here is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make meetings fit daily life. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging provide brief updates, coaching between sessions, or a way to stay connected when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and to use therapy in the rhythms of everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, New Hampshire
- Languages
- English