About Cecelia
Cecelia Maurer is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on practical, person-centered care. She uses down-to-earth conversation and clear goals to help adults manage stress, anxiety, relationships, and life transitions. Her style is warm and straightforward, with an emphasis on problem-solving that fits each person’s situation.
She blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Client-Centered and Solution-Focused techniques. That means she helps people notice what matters to them, build flexible ways to respond to difficult feelings, and try small, doable steps toward change.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and geared to everyday life, not jargon or long lectures. With 14 years of experience, she has worked with many concerns including self-esteem, anger, career challenges, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and caregiving stress. She also supports people facing family conflict, blended family issues, divorce and separation, and problems tied to aging or chronic illness.
Her background includes time as an academic coach and adjunct instructor, which shapes a practical, educational approach to therapy. People can expect clear communication about goals and straightforward strategies to practice between sessions. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion while keeping work focused and goal-oriented.
Her approach is adaptable to each person’s pace and needs. Sessions are offered in English and are provided to adults in Texas and international clients. Cecelia invites people who are ready to take a first step toward change to begin with a short intake and matching process.
How her approaches work online and in real life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice their thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that align with personal values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building a trusting relationship so people feel understood and can find their own solutions. It supports self-esteem and relationship concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs and preferences. Treatment is collaborative - you give feedback and adjust the plan as you learn what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth permits. Phone sessions can be a shorter, less visual option when you need a check-in or have limited data. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins into a busy day and to get ongoing support between longer sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent with daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English