About Cecilia
Cecilia Clowdus is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Texas. She brings seven years of experience helping people who are managing anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. Her work centers on clear, practical steps people can use between sessions.
Cecilia focuses on everyday concerns such as stress, parenting challenges, self-esteem, and addiction. She also supports people dealing with grief, bipolar mood swings, career stress, and relationship patterns. Sessions often address family of origin issues, codependency, abandonment, and body image struggles.
Background and approach
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. She uses therapies that help people notice thoughts and feelings, try new behaviors, and build better emotional skills. Cecilia aims to make therapy feel like a problem-solving partnership rather than a lecture.
In sessions she mixes tools from cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance-based work, and emotion-focused techniques. That combination helps with changing unhelpful thinking, accepting hard emotions, and improving how people connect with others. Dialectical behavior strategies are used when emotional regulation and distress tolerance are needed.
People can expect practical strategies to use right away. Cecilia helps clients set small, manageable goals and track progress over time. She also adapts approaches to match each person’s goals and pace.
Her background includes focused work on trauma-related issues and mood disorders. As an LPC she follows Texas practice standards and offers services in English. Online formats are available for people who prefer remote options.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions when someone wants clearer direction rather than symptom elimination. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and problems like low self-esteem or eating-related issues. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotions and improving how people connect in relationships. It can help with attachment concerns, relationship patterns, and issues that stem from family of origin.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Cecilia will discuss different methods and help the client decide what fits their needs, goals, and comfort level. That decision is collaborative and can change over time if something else seems more helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice and emotional work. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for easier check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, journaling-style reflection, and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain momentum over time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English