Crystal Paredes
Calm, practical help for families and individuals
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Wyoming, Texas, Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Crystal
Crystal Paredes is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 14 years of experience helping individuals and families manage stress, relationships, mood concerns, and parenting challenges. She works from Texas and offers practical, goal-focused support for people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and other life disruptions. Crystal keeps language simple in sessions and focuses on clear steps clients can use outside the room.
She offers individual therapy, couples and family work, crisis support, and both short-term and longer-term counseling.
Background and approach
Her approach blends problem-solving with evidence-informed tools so clients leave with skills they can use right away. She uses a mix of proven methods, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy, depending on what each person needs. Crystal earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Wyoming and an M.S. in mental health counseling from Walden University.
She has been an independently licensed professional counselor since 2012 and holds LPC credentials in Texas and Oregon. Her background also includes training in mental health first aid and verbal de-escalation. In sessions she focuses on clear goals and practical strategies rather than jargon.
She helps clients break big problems into manageable steps and builds skills for coping, communication, and decision-making. Parents and families can expect straightforward guidance that connects to daily life. Her work often covers caregiving stress, relationship patterns, parenting concerns, and mood or impulse-related struggles.
She tailors sessions to each family's goals and encourages collaboration on what will work best going forward.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Crystal uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that get in the way of everyday functioning. CBT is practical and useful for anxiety, depression, mood symptoms, and many day-to-day problems.She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. DBT tools are often helpful for strong mood swings, impulsivity, relationship conflict, and improving coping under stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Crystal will talk with each client about goals and preferences and then choose or combine methods to match those needs. She emphasizes collaboration so clients understand why a technique is chosen and how it will be used.
Online therapy lets clients use these approaches from home or anywhere they can connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice, while phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging provide flexible options for short check-ins or ongoing support. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to keep consistent momentum between sessions.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming, Texas, Oregon, Washington
- Languages
- English
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