About David
Dr. David Barrera helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy challenges, addictions, and coping with life changes. He also addresses parenting strain, career stress, anger, compassion fatigue, and mood concerns such as bipolar symptoms.
Dr. Barrera is a Licensed Professional Counselor, and he brings 25 years of experience in mental health work to his practice. He keeps sessions straightforward and practical.
He encourages small habit changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
He also pays attention to physical health because daily routines and self-care shape how people feel emotionally. Therapy with him often mixes talking with concrete steps. Clients set goals, try new routines, and check what helps and what does not.
He uses tools from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness, and solution-focused planning to support those steps. He takes a thoughtful, philosophical outlook when discussing meaning and values. That approach helps people weigh choices and understand what matters to them.
It also guides conversations about attachment, abandonment, blended family issues, and forgiveness. Dr. Barrera works with a wide range of concerns including body image, eating-related problems, communication struggles, and effects of trauma or domestic violence.
He concentrates on helping people build routines, manage emotions, and repair or improve important relationships.
Approaches that fit online care and everyday life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist, listening closely and following the client's concerns so they feel heard and can set their own goals. This approach helps with relationship, intimacy, and self-esteem issues by centering what matters to the individual.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and then tests small changes to see what works. It is useful for anxiety, depression, anger, and habit change because it gives clear steps to try and measure.
Mindfulness Therapy encourages simple present-moment practices to reduce stress and increase attention to everyday life. It pairs well with routine changes and self-care work to help people manage strong emotions and impulsivity.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences, then adjusts plans if something isn't helping. That means trying changes, checking results, and refining techniques together.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited; live chat and text-based messaging work for short check-ins or when written reflection feels most helpful. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while juggling work, family, and daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English