About Demetrica
Demetrica Dement is a licensed professional counselor in Texas with 14 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and stress. She also supports people dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, and questions about career and life purpose.
She approaches work from a respectful, person-centered stance. That means she listens first, then builds plans around each person's goals. Sessions focus on practical steps and coping skills you can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Demetrica uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills for managing strong emotions and improving communication. Client-Centered Therapy guides the way she stays focused on each person’s values and strengths.
Over her career she has supported people with trauma, anger, eating concerns, and issues tied to identity and LGBT matters. Additional focus areas include abandonment, aging and geriatric concerns, forgiveness work, and midlife challenges. She tailors the work to the problem you bring in each session.
Sessions can include goal setting, skill practice, and talking through painful memories. Demetrica aims to create a calm and steady space where people can try new approaches and notice gradual change. She works in English and practices in Texas.
How these approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building therapy around each person's goals and values. It helps when someone wants a therapist who follows their lead and highlights strengths rather than imposing solutions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. It offers straightforward techniques to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors for anxiety, depression, and mood concerns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions and improving communication. It is useful for people struggling with strong anger, relationship conflict, or emotional overwhelm.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, and together they will choose which methods to use. That collaboration helps keep sessions relevant and practical.
Online sessions can be done by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work with lower bandwidth, and live chat or text is useful for shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English