About Ana
Ana Manrique is a Licensed Professional Counselor with nine years of clinical experience. She helps people who are facing anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, and relationship strains. Her approach is warm and straightforward, and she focuses on practical steps people can use each day to feel steadier.
She centers sessions on respect and empathy. Ana treats each person as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
She encourages small, doable changes rather than sweeping promises, and she helps clients set realistic goals. In sessions Ana mixes evidence-informed tools with a client-centered stance. That means she listens first, then offers exercises or strategies that match a person's needs.
Clients may work on shifting unhelpful thoughts, practicing mindful awareness, or clarifying values to guide decisions. Ana also uses motivational interviewing techniques to strengthen commitment to change. This can be helpful for people working through addictions, career transitions, or repeated cycles of self-sabotage.
She frames change as a series of choices and supports clients in taking the next right step. She offers services in English and Spanish and draws on nine years of practice in Texas. The work tends to focus on everyday problems like stress, parenting strain, grief, communication difficulties, and rebuilding after loss.
Sessions aim to leave people with clear skills they can use between meetings.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Ana commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) in online sessions. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and take steps aligned with those values, which can reduce stuck patterns. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and teaching practical strategies to change them, useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.She also brings a client-centered stance to sessions, which means listening deeply and adapting tools to fit each person's situation. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Ana works with clients to decide which combination of strategies fits their goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress unfolds.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when less bandwidth is available or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when someone prefers written communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep regular contact between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- 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
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish