About Ana
Ana Ortiz is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 14 years of clinical experience. She began her career supporting people in rehabilitation and advocacy and later broadened into therapy. Her work covers many kinds of stress and life changes.
She speaks English and Spanish. She helps people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, addiction, and trouble with relationships or intimacy. She also supports concerns such as parenting strain, caregiver stress, body image, chronic illness and pain, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Practical, day-to-day problems like sleeping and eating issues are part of her caseload as well. Her in-session style is warm and interactive. Conversations are tailored to each person's situation rather than following a single script.
She focuses on building trust and understanding before trying new skills or strategies. Therapeutic work may include making sense of attachment patterns, learning concrete coping tools, and addressing unhelpful thinking that keeps problems going. Ana blends talking therapy with skills practice so clients can try things between sessions and notice change.
She frames progress as gradual and collaborative. Sessions aim to help a person feel steadier, communicate better, and handle stress more effectively. People who want practical steps and a respectful, down-to-earth approach often find this style helpful.
How Attachment Work and CBT Fit Online Therapy
Ana uses approaches such as Attachment-Based Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide online work. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape expectations and patterns; it helps people understand why they react strongly and build different ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thinking and behavior patterns and gives concrete skills to reduce anxiety, lift mood, and change unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Ana collaborates with each person to decide which methods match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She will review options together, adjust the plan as work progresses, and invite feedback about what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more practical. Video calls work well for deeper, conversation-based work. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and messaging allow quick support, ongoing reflection, and flexibility between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping continuity of care.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish