Dina Garza
Supportive counselor for practical family challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Dina
Dina Garza is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma and abuse, and issues with motivation and self-esteem. She writes plainly and listens closely, so concerns feel heard and clear goals emerge.
Her tone is practical and encouraging, aimed at people who are nervous about starting therapy but ready to try something that can help. Dina sees strengths in each person and treats clients as the experts on their own lives.
Background and approach
She works collaboratively to turn those strengths into steps forward. Sessions focus on small, doable changes rather than overwhelming lists of tasks. Her approach blends practical therapies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy with techniques drawn from Mindfulness and Trauma-Focused work.
This mix supports short-term problem solving and deeper work when needed. She also uses relationship tools from the Gottman Method for people who want to improve communication and connection. Dina has eight years of professional experience in counseling.
She aims for clear, plain language in sessions so families and parents can follow the plan easily. She encourages questions and makes space for emotional safety while working toward real-life changes. Her practice supports a range of concerns tied to family and parenting, grief, addiction, mood challenges, and coping with life transitions.
People can expect steady, practical steps and a collaborative attitude that centers their goals.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Dina uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy as core tools. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build practical skills to change mood and behavior. Trauma-Focused Therapy offers ways to process past hurts and reduce their impact on daily life.Choosing the right method is part of the work. She will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they adjust the plan over time so the approach matches changing needs and progress.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around busy family schedules and to check in between meetings. Many people find the flexibility helpful for keeping momentum, trying techniques in real time, and maintaining contact without extra travel.
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.
Gottman Method
A research-based framework for couples, focused on how partners argue, repair, and stay connected. Practical and structured, with exercises to try between sessions.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
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