About Dina
Dina Garza is a licensed professional counselor in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She also supports those coping with trauma, self-esteem struggles, addictions, grief, and career challenges. Her style is direct, compassionate, and focused on practical steps people can take between sessions.
Clients can expect clear goal-setting and tools they can use right away. Dina draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness practices to help change unhelpful thoughts and reduce overwhelm.
Background and approach
She also uses solution-focused techniques to identify small, achievable changes that lead to progress. When addressing relationship concerns she incorporates principles from the Gottman Method to improve communication and rebuild trust. For trauma-related work she uses trauma-focused strategies that prioritize safety and pacing.
Sessions are collaborative, with the client’s goals guiding the pace and focus. Dina emphasizes strengths and everyday skills. She helps people break problems into manageable pieces and practice new habits.
Simple exercises, check-ins, and behavioral changes are common parts of the work. With eight years of experience, Dina brings steady, practical support without jargon. She offers therapy in English and works with adults seeking help for a wide range of emotional and behavioral concerns.
Taking the first step to arrange a session is framed as a positive move toward change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Many clients find Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helpful for anxiety, depression, and unhelpful thinking patterns. CBT focuses on identifying thought patterns and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce distress and change behavior.The Gottman Method offers concrete communication tools for relationship concerns. It emphasizes practical exercises to improve listening, manage conflict, and rebuild connection over time.
Dina also uses Mindfulness Therapy to help people notice their thoughts and bodily responses without judgment. Mindfulness practices can reduce reactivity and help with stress, sleep, and emotional regulation.
Finding the best fit is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, past experiences with therapy, and personal preferences before choosing or blending approaches. Together they adjust methods as progress is made.
Online therapy provides flexible ways to meet - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice. Phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text options are useful for shorter updates, quick coping strategies, or when scheduling a longer session is difficult. These formats make it easier to fit regular therapy into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English