About Cierra
Cierra Batiste is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction. She writes and talks in a straightforward way and aims to make therapy practical and understandable. Many clients come for help with relationships, grief, sleep or parenting strains.
Cierra brings 13 years of experience to her work in Texas. She blends person-centered care with cognitive and mindfulness-based tools. That means sessions often begin with listening to what matters most to the client.
Background and approach
After that, she and the client choose skills to try, such as behavior changes, thought work, or grounding practices for anxiety and trauma. Cierra has a background working in behavioral hospital settings and independent practice. She has also worked with people facing substance use concerns and those navigating mood disorders.
Her experience includes addressing multicultural issues and concerns common to veterans and armed forces communities. In sessions she uses clear, goal-focused steps alongside supportive conversation. Clients can expect practical strategies for sleeping better, managing urges, coping with grief, and improving self-esteem.
She also helps people facing obsessive thoughts, process addictions, or personality-related struggles. Outside of counseling she enjoys outdoor activities and exploring new restaurants. Her approach aims to be collaborative: clients set goals, and she helps tailor tools to reach them.
How her approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps clients notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match personal values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Mindfulness-based practices teach simple attention and grounding exercises that can reduce stress and improve sleep.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to figure out which methods fit their goals, needs, and daily life. That may mean combining elements from different approaches and adjusting as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make counseling more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face dialogue and skill practice, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and varied routines.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Arizona
- Languages
- English