Marcos Villareal
Calm, practical support for relationships and life changes
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Marcos
Marcos Villareal is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, depression, parenting concerns, grief, and other life changes. He brings 20 years of experience and a calm, direct style. People who come to him often want clearer communication, better emotional balance, or help managing mood issues like bipolar or ADHD-related struggles.
He uses a mix of practical therapy methods tailored to each person. Sessions focus on building skills for handling strong emotions, improving interactions with others, and making steady changes that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
Marcos balances support with concrete tools clients can try between meetings. Marcos trained and worked in Texas and holds the LPC credential, TX LPC 79064, indicating a state license to practice as a professional counselor. He offers care in English and does not take international clients.
His approach combines evidence-based techniques and relationship-focused work. That means sometimes the work centers on thoughts and behaviors, and other times it looks at attachment and emotion in relationships. The goal is practical change and stronger connections with people who matter.
Therapy sessions are available through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Costs vary by location and therapist availability, and services use a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Marcos commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and attachment-based therapy in his work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors that reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape emotional responses and helps rebuild trust and connection in close relationships.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Marcos will talk with each person about their goals, history, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy with Marcos is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, revisit notes between meetings, and keep momentum when in-person visits are difficult. Many clients find the variety of online options helps them stay consistent with therapy while working toward clearer communication and better emotional balance.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Marcos
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point