About Blanca
Blanca Figueroa is a Licensed Professional Counselor who has practiced in Texas for 13 years. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, or eating concerns. She speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese and aims to make the first step toward help feel manageable.
Blanca focuses on practical work in sessions. She listens to what matters most and helps people name problems clearly. Conversations focus on coping skills, improving focus and memory, and restoring confidence in day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Her background includes supporting people dealing with chronic pain, illness, and disability as well as those facing divorce, fertility, immigration, and veteran-related concerns. She also works with issues that stem from family of origin, social anxiety, panic, and post-traumatic stress. In sessions, Blanca creates an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared.
She encourages small, achievable steps and works at a pace the person is comfortable with. Her style is direct but warm, aiming to build practical routines and clearer thinking. People who choose Blanca typically want hands-on strategies and steady support while they tackle specific problems.
She helps set goals, track progress, and adjust plans when needed. The work is collaborative and focused on improving daily functioning and wellbeing.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Blanca uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and coping. One common approach centers on skill-building for anxiety and panic - learning breathing and grounding tools, breaking problems into smaller steps, and practicing new responses to stressful moments. This helps people reduce overwhelm and regain a sense of control.Another approach emphasizes attention and executive functioning strategies for focus and ADHD-related struggles. Sessions include structure, short exercises to improve concentration, and planning methods that make tasks easier to manage. For trauma-related work she uses methods that help people process difficult memories at a pace that feels tolerable while strengthening current coping skills.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Blanca will talk with each person about their goals, try strategies, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. She aims to match techniques to daily life, not force a single way of working.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and visual cues, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing between-session work. These formats offer flexibility for different schedules and communication preferences.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- ADHD
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Fertility issues
- Immigration issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Portuguese