About Ana
Ana Parra is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 12 years of clinical experience. She uses approachable, practical methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and challenges with self-esteem. Ana speaks English and Spanish and aims to make therapy feel understandable and down-to-earth.
Her practice blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral approaches, and client-centered care to help people identify what matters to them and take small, useful steps toward those goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real-life problems like workplace stress, changes in family roles, sleep and eating concerns, and grief. She also addresses trauma, addictions, ADHD, and intimacy-related issues. Ana works with people facing relationship strains, parenting stress, and life transitions.
She pays attention to how thoughts and behaviors affect daily life and teaches skills for managing emotions and impulsivity. Communication problems, control issues, and feelings of isolation are common topics in her work. Her style is warm and interactive.
Sessions are conversational but goal-oriented, with practical tools to try between meetings. Ana encourages people to set achievable steps and notice what helps them feel more grounded. She offers care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
People interested in starting are asked to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule based on availability. The subscription service for sessions can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Ana commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that align with those values while accepting difficult feelings. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, and decisions about life direction.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. CBT offers concrete strategies for managing worry, improving sleep and eating patterns, and reducing impulsive reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions can shift over time as progress and challenges change, and Ana encourages feedback so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish