Marina Escobar
Calm, practical support for everyday family challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Format
- Online sessions
About Marina
Marina Escobar is a bilingual Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas with eight years of clinical experience. She speaks English and Spanish and focuses on practical support for common, everyday struggles. She welcomes clients who need help with stress, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, grief, and coping with major life changes.
Marina uses clear, straightforward conversation to find what is getting in the way and what already helps. Her approach emphasizes collaboration and real skills.
Background and approach
She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and client-centered methods to build simple plans clients can use between sessions. She also uses techniques from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when helpful. Marina pays attention to relationship and family concerns and to problems linked with addiction, anger, self-esteem, and communication.
She offers support for aging and caregiver stress, divorce and separation, and dealing with loss or isolation. She also works with issues such as codependency, control struggles, and seasonal mood changes. Sessions are practical and paced to each person.
Conversations focus on identifying strengths, naming patterns, and practicing small changes that add up. Marina aims to make the work feel doable rather than overwhelming. Parents and adults looking for clear guidance on everyday family and personal challenges often find this approach useful.
The initial steps involve a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session by selecting the Start Therapy button.
How Marina’s approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on identifying personal values and taking small actions that align with what matters most, useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks closely at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical exercises to shift unhelpful thinking and build new habits, which can help with sleep problems, stress, and mood concerns.
Finding the best approach is part of the work. Marina collaborates with each client to choose and adjust methods based on goals, preferences, and what shows progress. Together they try strategies, note what helps, and refine the plan over time.
Online therapy gives flexibility for busy schedules and family life. Video calls let people meet face to face from home while phone, live chat, and text-based messaging provide other ways to connect when time or location makes video difficult. These formats make it easier to practice skills between sessions and to fit care into everyday routines.
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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
Also works with
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Next step
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