Ana Manrique
Compassionate counselor for practical change
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Ana
Ana Manrique is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who focuses on relationship strain, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, anxiety, depression, and addiction-related issues. She brings nine years of experience to sessions and centers empathy and respect in her work. Ana emphasizes practical steps and strengths rather than only digging into problems.
Her style is direct but warm, aimed at helping people build balance and emotional resources. Ana treats each person as the expert on their own life.
Background and approach
She helps clients notice what already works for them and use those strengths to move forward. Conversations in therapy are collaborative and paced to fit what feels manageable. She encourages small, meaningful changes that add up over time.
Her approach draws on several evidence-informed methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. These approaches are used to address symptoms, shift unhelpful patterns, and increase willingness to face difficult feelings. Mindfulness and motivational techniques are woven in when useful to build awareness and sustained motivation.
Sessions may include skills practice, goal setting, and clear steps to handle stress or cravings. Ana also attends to grieving, caregiver strain, and interpersonal conflicts when they arise. She works in both English and Spanish and applies her LPC training to guide practical problem solving.
People who reach out can expect straightforward feedback, structured tools, and compassionate listening. The aim is realistic progress - not instant fixes, but steady movement toward greater wellbeing.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Ana often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then commit to actions that match their values. ACT can help with anxiety, depression, and motivation issues. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practice concrete skills for managing mood and behavior. CBT is useful for stress, depression, and anxiety symptoms.Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist and client look at goals, comfort with different techniques, and what has helped in the past. Together they try methods, adjust them, and choose what fits best for the client's needs and preferences.
Online sessions make it easier to connect from home or work using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options offer flexibility for scheduling and let people maintain continuity when life is busy. Working remotely still allows for skills practice, check-ins, and step-by-step planning to address relationship, parenting, or mood concerns.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
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