About Amaranta
Amaranta Penate-Marty uses evidence-based approaches to help people change unhelpful thinking and cope with difficult emotions. She is a licensed professional counselor with 11 years of experience and works in both English and Spanish. Her style is warm and direct, focused on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She commonly helps people managing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also supports people facing major life transitions, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Relationship, parenting, and identity concerns, including LGBT issues, are areas she addresses in individual work. Her sessions draw from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach tools for emotion regulation and clearer thinking. She also uses mindfulness and narrative techniques to help people notice patterns and reframe painful stories.
Solution-focused strategies are used to set concrete goals and track progress. Amaranta frames counseling as a collaborative process. She adapts methods to each person’s needs and cultural background, noting her bicultural perspective helps when language or culture shape problems.
She emphasizes acceptance alongside practical change. People meet with her online in a variety of formats. She explains what to expect, helps pick approaches that fit each person’s goals, and works in a straightforward way so clients leave sessions with actions to try between meetings.
Evidence-based approaches for online support
Amaranta commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy in online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and depression by giving practical skills to test beliefs and try new actions. Dialectical behavior therapy teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication, which is useful when feelings become overwhelming or relationships are strained.Finding the right approach is part of the process. She will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. The plan can change as progress is made, and she works together with clients to pick techniques that feel useful and realistic for everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can support people who prefer writing, want more frequent brief contact, or need a flexible way to fit therapy into a busy day.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish