Ana Ortiz
Calm, practical therapy for life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ana
Ana Ortiz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 14 years of clinical experience. She has worked in rehabilitation, advocacy, and therapy settings and has supported people dealing with trauma, mood challenges, addiction, and many life stressors. Ana speaks English and Spanish and brings a calm, respectful presence to sessions.
Her style is warm and interactive. She listens first, then helps clients set clear goals. Sessions focus on practical steps and honest conversation.
Background and approach
Ana adjusts the plan to match each person’s situation and preferences. Ana has worked with people facing depression, anxiety, grief, and relationship strain. Her background includes care for those affected by domestic violence, brain injury, chronic pain, and substance issues.
She also addresses identity-related concerns such as LGBT matters and body image struggles. Clinically, Ana uses several evidence-based approaches. She draws on attachment work to look at how close relationships shape current problems.
Cognitive behavioral methods help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses client-centered techniques to keep the work grounded in each person’s values. In sessions she aims to help people manage stress, improve day-to-day coping, and make meaningful changes.
Her approach is collaborative and focused on building skills for life outside of therapy. Parents and caregivers seeking practical, empathetic guidance may find her approach helpful.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at the way early connections shape current relationships and emotional patterns. It can help people understand why they react strongly in close relationships and learn new ways to connect. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Ana will collaborate with each person to choose strategies that match their goals and values. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as progress is made.
Online sessions can be done by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work during life changes. The variety of formats also allows for short check-ins or longer, deeper conversations depending on what a person needs.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- 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
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
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