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Gloria Gonzalez

Supportive family-focused counseling

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Credentials
LPC
Experience
5 years
Licensed in
Texas
Languages
English, Spanish
Format
Online sessions

About Gloria

Gloria Gonzalez is a licensed professional counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns alongside stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and relationship difficulties. She speaks English and Spanish and works with children, teens, and adults. Gloria aims to help families find practical ways to manage parenting challenges and everyday stresses.

Her approach centers on strengths and values to make change feel possible from the first steps. Gloria designs sessions around each person or family.

Background and approach

She listens first, then helps set concrete goals that match what matters to the family. Therapy often includes learning coping skills, improving communication, and building strategies to handle anger, grief, or changes in life. She uses methods drawn from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy.

Those approaches guide skill practice, problem-solving, and managing intense emotions. Sessions may involve working on thought patterns, behavioral experiments, and emotion regulation techniques. Gloria’s background includes work with families involved with child protective services, parenting skills coaching, addiction treatment for individuals and their relatives, and career-related support for unemployed clients.

She has experience addressing trauma, self-injury, domestic violence, and other complex issues that affect family life. If a family prefers Spanish, she offers sessions in that language. Gloria emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes, and she helps families build practical tools they can use between sessions.

Therapeutic approaches tailored for online family support

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building on a family's strengths. The therapist creates a respectful, nonjudgmental space and follows the family’s priorities to set goals and plan next steps.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. It involves simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and parenting challenges.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills to manage strong emotions and improve relationships. It uses practical techniques for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication that families can practice between sessions.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each family about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.

Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules and to continue work when in-person visits are impractical. Many families find the flexibility helps them practice new skills consistently and stay connected to care.

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.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship troubles, trauma and abuse, depression, family issues, grief, eating concerns, parenting, anger, self-esteem, career challenges, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes, among others.
What is her general therapy style?
Her style is collaborative and practical. She listens, helps set concrete goals, and teaches skills families can use at home.
What experience does she bring?
She has five years of clinical experience working with children, teens, and adults, including families involved with child protective services and people facing addiction or mental health struggles.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - with license TX LPC 70647, and she practices in Texas.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats are offered?
She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as session formats.
How does payment and cost work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

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Experience
5 years
Licensed
Texas
Languages
English, Spanish

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