About Anique
Anique Gonzalez is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Texas who uses a client-centered approach to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and relationship strain. She draws on six years of clinical experience in a range of settings to guide her work. She favors practical, straightforward sessions where goals are set together.
Anique blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused techniques. That mix is aimed at identifying current struggles, changing unhelpful thinking, and finding concrete steps forward.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in outpatient, inpatient, and personal settings. Those varied roles gave her experience supporting people with major mood and thought disorders as well as emotional distress and compassion fatigue. She focuses on meeting each person where they are and moving at an individual pace.
In sessions she helps people name problems, set short-term goals, and practice new behaviors between meetings. Motivational Interviewing is used when people want to find internal reasons to change and build commitment to those steps. The overall emphasis is on steady progress rather than instant fixes.
People who reach out can expect clear discussion about what they want to achieve and simple tools to try between sessions. Anique believes small steps add up, and she works collaboratively to help people regain balance and confidence in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Anique commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's concerns so goals can be set at a comfortable pace; it helps when someone needs a steady, understanding space to talk. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and gives practical exercises to test new ways of thinking and behaving, which is helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the process and she works together with each person to decide what fits best. That means discussing goals, trying different techniques, and adjusting the plan as progress is made. The therapist aims to match methods to the client's needs and preferences rather than using a single fixed method.
Online therapy with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging offers flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or fit into a work break, live chat works for quicker back-and-forth, and messaging can help people who prefer writing or need ongoing check-ins. These options make it easier to attend sessions and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English