About Ana
Ana Garcia is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Louisiana with 20 years of experience. She speaks English and Spanish and offers a calm, welcoming presence for people starting therapy. Ana focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and life changes.
She also supports concerns related to ADHD and parenting. Her approach is practical and straightforward. She uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen closely and create a nonjudgmental space where clients can name what matters most.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and build small, doable behavior changes. Sessions aim to tackle specific issues such as body image, impulsivity, communication problems, and social anxiety. Ana helps clients break problems into steps and practice new skills between meetings.
She emphasizes realistic goals and steady progress rather than quick fixes. Language flexibility makes it easier for English or Spanish speakers to explain their concerns and feel understood. Ana encourages questions about the process and invites clients to shape the work to fit their life.
She often blends listening with practical tools so sessions feel useful from the start. Many people come for help with self-love, life purpose, or difficulties faced by young adults. Ana frames therapy as a collaborative effort toward clearer thinking and healthier routines.
Her tone is warm and encouraging, and she acknowledges that reaching out takes courage.
Client-focused approaches for online care
Ana uses Client-Centered Therapy to start. That means she listens first and lets clients set the pace and priorities. This approach helps people feel heard and make sense of their feelings before moving to solutions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is practical for worries, low mood, social anxiety, and ADHD-related patterns because it breaks problems into clear steps and small experiments.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Ana works collaboratively with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She checks in as progress unfolds and adjusts strategies together.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their week. Video is useful for deeper conversations, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a short check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, or family commitments.
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What this counselor works with
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- Body image
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English, Spanish